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4 (for the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty, through God, for the overthrowing of strongholds,)
5 overthrowing reasonings and every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God, and leading captive every thought to the obedience of the Christ,
6 and being ready to take vengeance on all disobedience, when your obedience shall have been fully established.
7 Do you look on things according to the outward appearance? If any one trusts in himself, that he is Christ s, let him again reason thus of himself: that as he is Christ s, so also are we.
8 For though I should boast even, somewhat more abundantly of our authority, which the Lord has given us for edification, and not for your destruction, I would not be ashamed:
9 that I may not seem as if I would terrify you by letters.
10 For his letters, says one, are weighty and powerful, but his bodily presence is weak, and his style of speech contemptible.