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2 Corinthians 10:12

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For we are not bold to number or compare ourselves with certain of them that commend themselves: but they themselves, measuring themselves by themselves, and comparing themselves with themselves, are without understanding.

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2 Corinthians 10:12 in other translations

For we are not bold to number or compare ourselves with some of those who commend themselves. But they themselves, measuring themselves by themselves, and comparing themselves with themselves, are without understanding.

2 Corinthians 10:12 · World English Bible

2 Corinthians 10:12 in context

  1. 10For, His letters, they say, are weighty and strong; but his bodily presence is weak, and his speech of no account.
  2. 11Let such a one reckon this, that, what we are in word by letters when we are absent, such are we also in deed when we are present.
  3. 12For we are not bold to number or compare ourselves with certain of them that commend themselves: but they themselves, measuring themselves by themselves, and comparing themselves with themselves, are without understanding.
  4. 13But we will not glory beyond our measure, but according to the measure of the province which God apportioned to us as a measure, to reach even unto you.
  5. 14For we stretch not ourselves overmuch, as though we reached not unto you: for we came even as far as unto you in the gospel of Christ: