2 Corinthians 10

1 Now by the mildness and gentleness of Christ, I appeal to you—I, Paul, who am humble when face to face with you, but bold when away.

1 你们以为我在你们中间的时候很温和，不在你们中间的时候却很严厉。如今，我保罗以基督的谦卑和温柔亲自劝你们：

2 I beg you that when I come I may not need to be as bold as I expect toward those who presume that we live according to the flesh.

2 我去的时候，但求我不必这样严厉地对待你们，我的严厉是用来对付那些说我们凭血气行事的人。

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

3 因为我们虽然活在血肉之躯里，但在属灵争战上却不凭血气之勇。

4 The weapons of our warfare are not the weapons of the flesh. Instead, they have divine power to demolish strongholds.

4 我们争战的兵器不是属血气的，而是从上帝而来的能力，可以摧毁坚固的营垒，

5 We demolish arguments and every presumption set up against the knowledge of God; and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ.

5 击破一切谬论和阻碍人们认识上帝的骄傲言论，夺回被掳去的心思意念，使其顺服基督。

6 And we will be ready to punish every act of disobedience, as soon as your obedience is complete.

6 等你们完全顺服主后，我们就要惩罚所有叛逆的人。

7 You are looking at outward appearances. If anyone is confident that he belongs to Christ, he should remind himself that we belong to Christ just as much as he does.

7 你们只会看事情的表面。如果有人相信自己属于基督，他就应该再想一想，我们跟他一样也是属于基督的。

8 For even if I boast somewhat excessively about the authority the Lord gave us for building you up rather than tearing you down, I will not be ashamed.

8 因为主赐给我们权柄是为了造就你们，不是为了毁坏你们，就算我为这权柄稍微夸口，也不会感到羞愧。

9 I do not want to seem to be trying to frighten you by my letters.

9 我不想你们认为我写信是要威吓你们。

10 For some say, “His letters are weighty and forceful, but his physical presence is unimpressive, and his speaking is of no account.”

10 因为有人说：“他信中的话有分量，很严厉，他本人却软弱无能，言语粗俗。”

11 Such people should consider that what we are in our letters when absent, we will be in our actions when present.

11 说这话的人要留心：我们不在你们那里的时候，在信上怎么说，与你们见面时也会怎么做。

12 We do not dare to classify or compare ourselves with some who commend themselves. When they measure themselves by themselves and compare themselves with themselves, they show their ignorance.

12 我们不敢和那些自我推荐的人相提并论！他们以自己的尺度衡量自己，自我比较，实在不明智！

13 We, however, will not boast beyond our limits, but only within the field of influence that God has assigned to us—a field that reaches even to you.

13 但我们并非漫无边际地夸口，而是在上帝为我们定下的范围之内夸口，你们也包括在这范围之内。

14 We are not overstepping our bounds, as if we had not come to you. Indeed, we were the first to reach you with the gospel of Christ.

14 其实把你们包括在我们夸口的范围之内一点都不过分，因为我们首先把基督的福音传到你们那里。

15 Neither do we boast beyond our limits in the labors of others. But we hope that as your faith increases, our area of influence among you will greatly increase as well,

15 我们没有超出范围拿别人辛劳的成果夸口，只盼望随着你们信心的增长，我们的范围也得到极大的扩展，

16 so that we can preach the gospel in the regions beyond you. Then we will not be boasting in the work already done in another man’s territory.

16 使我们可以把福音传到你们以外的地方，而不是在别人的工作范围内拿别人的成就夸口。

17 Rather, “Let him who boasts boast in the Lord.”

17 “要夸耀，就当夸耀主的作为。”

18 For it is not the one who commends himself who is approved, but the one whom the Lord commends.

18 因为，蒙悦纳的是主所称许的人，而不是自我称许的人。