2 Corinthians 10:2 Cross References - BLB

² Now I implore you that being present, I need not to be bold with the confidence with which I reckon to be daring toward some reckoning us as walking according to flesh.

¹ Therefore there is now no condemnation to those in Christ Jesus.

⁵ For those being according to flesh mind the things of the flesh; but those according to Spirit, the things of the Spirit.

¹⁸ Now some have become puffed up, as if I were not coming to you. ¹⁹ But I will come to you shortly, if the Lord wills, and I will find out not the talk of those being puffed up, but their power. ²⁰ For the kingdom of God is not in word, but in power. ²¹ What do you desire? Should I come to you with a rod, or in love and a spirit of gentleness?

⁹ And being present with you and having been in need, I did not burden anyone; for the brothers having come from Macedonia completely filled up my need, and in everything I kept and will keep myself unburdensome to you. ¹⁰ The truth of Christ is in me, that this boasting of mine will not be sealed up in the regions of Achaia. ¹¹ Why? Because I do not love you? God knows I do! ¹² But what I do, I will continue doing, so that I might cut off the opportunity of those desiring an opportunity that they might be found as also we in what they are boasting. ¹³ For such are false apostles, deceitful workers, disguising themselves as apostles of Christ.

¹³ For in what is it that you were inferior beyond the rest of the churches, except that I myself did not burden you? Forgive me this wrong! ¹⁴ Behold, this third time I am ready to come to you, and I will not burden you. For I do not seek what is yours, but you. For the children ought not to treasure up for the parents, but the parents for the children. ¹⁵ Now I will spend most gladly, and will be utterly spent, for your souls. If loving you more abundantly, am I loved less? ¹⁶ But be it so, I did not burden you; but being crafty, I caught you by trickery. ¹⁷ By any of whom I have sent to you, did I exploit you by him? ¹⁸ I urged Titus to go, and sent with him our brother. Did Titus exploit you? Did we not walk in the same spirit? Not in the same steps? ¹⁹ Have you been thinking all along that we have been making a defense to you? We speak in Christ before God, but all things, beloved, for your edification. ²⁰ For I fear lest perhaps having come, I may not find you such as I wish, and I might be found by you such as you do not wish; lest perhaps there may be quarreling, jealousy, anger, contentions, slander, gossip, conceit, disorder;

² I have warned as being present the second time, and being absent now; and I warn those having sinned before and all the rest that, if I come to the same again, I will not spare anyone,

¹⁰ Therefore I write these things being absent, so that being present I should not treat you with severity according to the authority that the Lord has given me for building up and not for tearing down.

¹⁶ Now I say, walk by the Spirit, and you should not gratify the desires of the flesh. ¹⁷ For the flesh desires against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh. For these are opposed to one another in order that you should not do those things you might wish. ¹⁸ But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the Law. ¹⁹ Now the works of the flesh are evident, which are sexual immorality, impurity, sensuality, ²⁰ idolatry, sorcery, enmities, strife, jealousy, outbursts of anger, contentions, dissensions, factions, ²¹ envyings, drunkennesses, carousing, and things like these, as to which I forewarn you, even as I warned before, that those doing such things will not inherit God’s kingdom. ²² But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, ²³ gentleness, self-control. Against such things there is no law. ²⁴ Now those of Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires. ²⁵ If we live by the Spirit, we should also walk by the Spirit.

² in which once you walked according to the age of this world, according to the ruler of the authority of the air, the spirit now working in the sons of disobedience, ³ among whom we all also once lived in the desires of our flesh, doing the things willed of the flesh and of its thoughts; and we were by nature children of wrath even as the rest.