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2 Corinthians 10:8
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2 Corinthians 10:8
8For though I should boast somewhat more of our authority, which the Lord hath given us for edification, and not for your destruction, I should not be ashamed:
8For though I should boast somewhat more of our authority (which the Lord hath giuen vs for edification, and not for your destruction) I should not be ashamed:
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DEFINED WORDS
2 Corinthians 10:8
To glory, speak proudly, or display what one possesses or has done.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
A greater amount, number, or degree; in a greater degree.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
A title of authority applied here to God, Christ, or a male master or ruler, according to the verse.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (alignment witness) · Webster 1828
Bestowed, granted, delivered, or appointed.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828
APPROVED COMBINED MEANING
edification
Spiritual or moral instruction that builds up the hearer.
Meaning drawn from: Bullokar 1616
MEANING IN THIS VERSE
destruction
Harmful tearing down or ruin, contrasted with the Lord-given authority to build up.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
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Open the full verse study10Therefore I write these things being absent, lest being present I should use sharpness, according to the power which the Lord hath given me to edification, and not to destruction.
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Open the full verse study12For the which cause I also suffer these things: nevertheless I am not ashamed: for I know whom I have believed, and am persuaded that he is able to keep that which I have committed unto him against that day.
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Open the full verse study24Not for that we have dominion over your faith, but are helpers of your joy: for by faith ye stand.
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Open the full verse study6For though I would desire to glory, I shall not be a fool; for I will say the truth: but now I forbear, lest any man should think of me above that which he seeth me to be, or that he heareth of me.
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Open the full verse study2I told you before, and foretell you, as if I were present, the second time; and being absent now I write to them which heretofore have sinned, and to all other, that, if I come again, I will not spare:
3Since ye seek a proof of Christ speaking in me, which to you-ward is not weak, but is mighty in you.
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Open the full verse study8For we can do nothing against the truth, but for the truth.
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Open the full verse study1PAUL, an apostle, (not of men, neither by man, but by Jesus Christ, and God the Father, who raised him from the dead;)
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Open the full verse study14For if I have boasted any thing to him of you, I am not ashamed; but as we spake all things to you in truth, even so our boasting, which I made before Titus, is found a truth.
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