CLV(i)
4 For the weapons of our warfare are not fleshly, but powerful to God toward the pulling down of bulwarks; "
5 pulling down reckonings and every height elevating itself against the knowledge of God, and leading into captivity every apprehension into the obedience of Christ, "
6 and having all in readiness to avenge every disobedience, whenever your obedience may be completed. "
7 Are you looking at that on the surface? If anyone is presuming to have confidence in himself to be Christ's, let him be reckoning this again with himself, that, according as he is Christ's, thus also are we. "
8 For if ever I, besides, should also be boasting somewhat more excessively concerning our authority (which the Lord gives us for building you up and not for pulling you down), "
9 lest I should seem as ever terrifying you through epistles, "
10 seeing that he is averring, "His epistles, indeed, are weighty and strong, yet his bodily presence is weak and his expression to be scorned."