¶ There is then no damnation to them which are in Christ Iesu, which walk not after the flesh: but after the spirit.
2 Corinthians 10:2 - William Tyndale New Testament I beseech you that I need not to be bold when I am present (with that same confidence, wherewith I am supposed to be bold) against some which repute us as though we walked carnally. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 but I beseech you, that I may not be bold when I am present with that confidence, wherewith I think to be bold against some, which think of us as if we walked according to the flesh. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition I entreat you when I do come [to you] that I may not [be driven to such] boldness as I intend to show toward those few who suspect us of acting according to the flesh [on the low level of worldly motives and as if invested with only human powers]. American Standard Version (1901) yea, I beseech you, that I may not when present show courage with the confidence wherewith I count to be bold against some, who count of us as if we walked according to the flesh. Common English Bible I beg you that when I’m with you in person, I won’t have to boss you around. I’m afraid that I may have to use that kind of behavior with those people who think we live by human standards. Catholic Public Domain Version So I am petitioning you, lest I be bold, when present, with that bold confidence that I am considered to have by certain ones who judge us as if we were walking according to the flesh. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version But I beseech you, that I may not be bold when I am present, with that confidence wherewith I am thought to be bold, against some, who reckon us as if we walked according to the flesh. |
¶ There is then no damnation to them which are in Christ Iesu, which walk not after the flesh: but after the spirit.
that the righteousness required of the law, might be fulfilled in us, which walk not after the flesh: but after the spirit.
¶ For they that are carnal, are carnally minded. and they that are spiritual are ghostly minded.
¶ When I thuswise was minded: Did I use lightness? Or think I carnally those things which I think? that with me should be yee yee, and nay nay.
I speak as concerning rebuke, as though we had been weak. ¶ Whereinsoever any man dare be bold (I speak foolishly) I dare be bold also.
Therefore write I these things being absent, lest when I am present I should use sharpness according to the power which the Lord hath given me, to edify, and not to destroy.
I told you before, and tell you before, as I said when I was present with you the second time, so write I now being absent to them which in time past have sinned, and to all other: If I come again, I will not spare