2 Corinthians 10:9
“That I may not seem as if I would terrify you by letters.”
Do ye look on things after the outward appearance? If any man trust to himself that he is Christ’s, let him of himself think this again, that, as he is Christ’s, even so are we Christ’s.
For 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:
That I may not seem as if I would terrify you by letters.
For his letters, say they, are weighty and powerful; but his bodily presence is weak, and his speech contemptible.
Let such an one think this, that, such as we are in word by letters when we are absent, such will we be also in deed when we are present.
Related Verses
“But I beseech you, that I may not be bold when I am present with that confidence, wherewith I think to be bold against some, which think of us as if we walked according to the flesh.”
“Let such an one think this, that, such as we are in word by letters when we are absent, such will we be also in deed when we are present.”
“For his letters, say they, are weighty and powerful; but his bodily presence is weak, and his speech contemptible.”
“Therefore 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.”
“For to this end also did I write, that I might know the proof of you, whether ye be obedient in all things.”