2 Corinthians 10:1-5 ▼

1 Now I, Paul, myself exhort you⁺ by the mildness and gentleness of Christ—I who indeed as to presence am humble among you⁺, but being absent am bold toward you⁺.

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 the flesh.

3 For walking in flesh, we do not wage war according to the flesh.

4 For the weapons of our warfare are not fleshly, but powerful before God toward the tearing down of strongholds,

5 tearing down arguments and every high thing lifting itself up against the knowledge of God, and taking captive every thought into the obedience of Christ,