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2 Corinthians 10:1

James Moffatt - New Testament

I appeal to you myself by the gentleness and consideration of Christ — the Paul who is 'humble enough to your face when he is with you, but outspoken enough when he gets away from you.'

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My opponent says, 'Paul's letters are weighty and telling, but his personality is weak and his delivery is beneath contempt.'

Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find your souls refreshed;

Here, listen to Paul! I tell you, if you get circumcised, Christ will be no use to you.

Well then, my brothers, I appeal to you by all the mercy of God to dedicate your bodies as a living sacrifice, consecrated and acceptable to God; that is your cult, a spiritual rite.

If there is to be any boasting, I will boast of what I am weak enough to suffer!

It was in weakness and fear and with great trembling that I visited you;

I John, your brother and your companion in the distress and realm and patient endurance which Jesus brings, found myself in the island called Patmos, for adhering to God's word and the testimony of Jesus.

Beloved, as sojourners and exiles I appeal to you to abstain from the passions of the flesh that wage war upon the soul.

I prefer to appeal to you on the ground of love. Well then, as Paul the old man, who now-a-days is a prisoner for Christ Jesus,

The salutation is in my own hand, Paul's; that is a mark in every letter of mine. This is how I write.

As the Lord's prisoner, then, I beg of you to live a life worthy of your calling,

no, although it was because of an illness (you know) that I preached the gospel to you on my former visit,

Of an experience like that I am prepared to boast, but not of myself personally — not except as regards my weaknesses.

I am quite ashamed to say I was not equal to that sort of thing! But let them vaunt as they please, I am equal to them (mind, this is the role of a fool!).

Look at this obvious fact. So-and-so is perfectly sure he 'belongs to Christ'? Well then, let him understand, on second thoughts, that I 'belong to Christ' as much as he does.

I beg of you that when I do come I may not have to speak out and be peremptory; but my mind is made up to tackle certain people who have made up their minds that I move on the low level of the flesh.

I have absolute confidence in you, I am indeed proud of you, you are a perfect comfort to me, I am overflowing with delight, for all the trouble I have to bear.

I appeal to you too, as a worker with God, do not receive the grace of God in vain.

So I am an envoy for Christ, God appealing by me, as it were — be reconciled to God, I entreat you on behalf of Christ.

Such being my hope then, I am quite frank and open —

We, for Christ's sake, are 'fools'; you in Christ are sensible. We are weak, you are strong; you are honoured, we are in disrepute.

Still, by way of refreshing your memory, I have written you with a certain freedom, in virtue of my divine commission

And then Isaiah dares to say, I have been found by those who never sought me, I have shown myself to those who never inquired of me.

Now the passage of scripture which he was reading was as follows: — he was led like a sheep to be slaughtered, and as a lamb is dumb before the shearer, so he opens not his lips.

Tell the daughter of Sion, 'Here is your king coming to you, He is gentle and mounted on an ass, And on a colt the foal of a beast of burden.'

Which is it to be? Am I to come to you with a rod of discipline or with love and a spirit of gentleness?

For this reason I Paul, I whom Jesus has made a prisoner for the sake of you Gentiles —

Let your forbearance be known to everyone; the Lord is at hand.

that is, if you adhere to the foundations and stability of the faith, instead of moving away from the hope you have learned in the gospel, that gospel which has been preached to every creature under heaven, and of which I Paul was made a minister.

This is in my own handwriting: 'I Paul promise to refund it' — not to mention that you owe me, over and above, your very soul.




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