2 Corinthians 10:7-18

7Do ye look at what concerns appearance? If any one has confidence in himself that he is of Christ, let him think this again in himself, that even as he [is] of Christ, so also [are] we. 8For and if I should boast even somewhat more abundantly of our authority, which the Lord has given [to us] for building up and not for your overthrowing, I shall not be put to shame; 9that I may not seem as if I was frightening you by letters: 10because his letters, he says, [are] weighty and strong, but his presence in the body weak, and his speech naught. 11Let such a one think this, that such as we are in word by letters [when] absent, such also present in deed. 12For we dare not class ourselves or compare ourselves with some who commend themselves; but these, measuring themselves by themselves, and comparing themselves with themselves, are not intelligent. 13Now we will not boast out of measure, but according to the measure of the rule which the 1God of measure has apportioned to us, to reach to you also. 14For we do not, as not reaching to you, overstretch ourselves, (for we have come to you also in the glad tidings of the Christ;) 15not boasting out of measure in other people's labours, but having hope, your faith increasing, to be enlarged amongst you, according to our rule, yet more abundantly 16to announce the glad tidings to that [which is] beyond you, not to be boasting in another's rule of things made ready to hand. 17But he that boasts, let him boast in the Lord. 18For not he that commends himself is approved, but whom the Lord commends.