Persecuted, but not forsaken; cast down, but not destroyed;

cast down, but not destroyed; always bearing about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus, that the life also of Jesus might be manifested in our body.

Nevertheless God, that comforteth those that are cast down, comforted us by the coming of Titus;

(for the weapons of our warfare are not of the flesh, but mighty before God to the casting down of strongholds),

Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ;

because of this, these things -- being absent -- I write, that being present, I may not treat any sharply, according to the authority that the Lord did give me for building up, and not for casting down.

If, however, I were to boast more loudly concerning the authority which the Lord gave me (not to cast you down, but to build you up), I should have no cause for shame.