New American Bible, Revised Edition

2 Corinthians 10:1-4 New American Bible, Revised Edition (NABRE)

1. Now I myself, Paul, urge you through the gentleness and clemency of Christ, I who am humble when face to face with you, but brave toward you when absent,

2. I beg you that, when present, I may not have to be brave with that confidence with which I intend to act boldly against some who consider us as acting according to the flesh.

3. For, although we are in the flesh, we do not battle according to the flesh,

4. for the weapons of our battle are not of flesh but are enormously powerful, capable of destroying fortresses. We destroy arguments