2 Corinthians 10:11 Catholic Bible: Such a person must understand that there is no difference between what we write in our letters when we are away and what we will do when we are there with you.

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Good News Translation
Such a person must understand that there is no difference between what we write in our letters when we are away and what we will do when we are there with you.

Contemporary English Version
Those people had better understand that when I am with you, I will do exactly what I say in my letters.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Let such a one think this, that such as we are in word by epistles when absent, such also we will be indeed when present.

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Let such a one think this, that such as we are in word by epistles when absent, such also we will be indeed when present.

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2 Corinthians 12:20 For I fear lest perhaps, when I come, I shall not find you such as I would, and that I shall be found by you such as you would not. Lest perhaps contentions, envyings, animosities, dissensions, detractions, whisperings, swellings, seditions, be among you.

2 Corinthians 13:2,3,10 I have told before and foretell, as present and now absent, to them that sinned before and to all the rest, that if I come again, I will not spare. . . .

1 Corinthians 4:19,20 But I will come to you shortly, if the Lord will: and will know, not the speech of them that are puffed up, but the power. . . .

Context

Paul's Apostolic Authority
…10(For his epistles indeed, say they, are weighty and strong; but his bodily presence is weak and his speech contemptible): 11Let such a one think this, that such as we are in word by epistles when absent, such also we will be indeed when present. 12For we dare not match or compare ourselves with some that commend themselves: but we measure ourselves by ourselves and compare ourselves with ourselves.…

Cross References

2 Corinthians 10:10
(For his epistles indeed, say they, are weighty and strong; but his bodily presence is weak and his speech contemptible):

2 Corinthians 10:12
For we dare not match or compare ourselves with some that commend themselves: but we measure ourselves by ourselves and compare ourselves with ourselves.

2 Corinthians 13:2
I have told before and foretell, as present and now absent, to them that sinned before and to all the rest, that if I come again, I will not spare.

Additional Translations

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

Let such a one reckon this, that such as we are in word by letters being absent, also such we are in action being present.

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.

Let such a one reckon this, that, what we are in word by letters when we are absent, such are we also in deed when we are present.

Let such a one think this, that such as we are in word by letters [when] absent, such also present in deed.

Let such a one reckon this, that, what we are in word by letters when we are absent, such are we also in deed when we are present.

Let such 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.

Let such people take this into their reckoning, that whatever we are in word by our letters when absent, the same are we also in act when present.

Let such a person consider this, that what we are in word by letters when we are absent, such are we also in deed when we are present.

This one -- let him reckon thus: that such as we are in word, through letters, being absent, such also, being present, we are in deed.

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