2 Corinthians 10:8

Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

For even if I boast a little too much of our authority, which the Lord gave for building you up and not for destroying you, I shall not be put to shame.

Cross References

2 Corinthians 1:24

Not that we lord it over your faith; we work with you for your joy, for you stand firm in your faith.

2 Corinthians 10:4

for the weapons of our warfare are not worldly but have divine power to destroy strongholds.

2 Corinthians 10:9

I would not seem to be frightening you with letters.

2 Corinthians 12:19

Have you been thinking all along that we have been defending ourselves before you? It is in the sight of God that we have been speaking in Christ, and all for your upbuilding, beloved.

2 Corinthians 12:6

Though if I wish to boast, I shall not be a fool, for I shall be speaking the truth. But I refrain from it, so that no one may think more of me than he sees in me or hears from me.

2 Corinthians 13:10

I write this while I am away from you, in order that when I come I may not have to be severe in my use of the authority which the Lord has given me for building up and not for tearing down.

2 Corinthians 13:8

For we cannot do anything against the truth, but only for the truth.

2 Corinthians 7:14

For if I have expressed to him some pride in you, I was not put to shame; but just as everything we said to you was true, so our boasting before Titus has proved true.

2 Corinthians 7:4

I have great confidence in you; I have great pride in you; I am filled with comfort. With all our affliction, I am overjoyed.

Galatians 1:1

Paul an apostle—not from men nor through man, but through Jesus Christ and God the Father, who raised him from the dead—

2 Timothy 1:12

and therefore I suffer as I do. But I am not ashamed, for I know whom I have believed, and I am sure that he is able to guard until that Day what has been entrusted to me.