◄ 2 Corinthians 10:9 ►
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Good News Translation
I do not want it to appear that I am trying to frighten you with my letters.

New Revised Standard Version
I do not want to seem as though I am trying to frighten you with my letters.

Contemporary English Version
And I am not trying to scare you with my letters.

New American Bible
May I not seem as one frightening you through letters.

Douay-Rheims Bible
But that I may not be thought as it were to terrify you by epistles,

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

But that I may not be thought as it were to terrify you by epistles,

terrify.

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

1 Corinthians 4:5,19-21 Therefore, judge not before the time: until the Lord come, who both will bring to light the hidden things of darkness and will make manifest the counsels of the hearts. And then shall every man have praise from God. . . .

Context
Paul's Apostolic Authority
…8For if also I should boast somewhat more of our power, which the Lord hath given us unto edification and not for your destruction, I should not be ashamed. 9But that I may not be thought as it were to terrify you by epistles, 10(For his epistles indeed, say they, are weighty and strong; but his bodily presence is weak and his speech contemptible):…
Cross References
2 Corinthians 10:8
For if also I should boast somewhat more of our power, which the Lord hath given us unto edification and not for your destruction, I should not be ashamed.

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 10:8
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