GOD'S WORD® Translation
I don't want you to think that I'm trying to frighten you with my letters.

American Standard Version
that I may not seem as if I would terrify you by my letters.

Berean Study Bible
I do not want to seem to be trying to frighten you by my letters.

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

English Revised Version
that I may not seem as if I would terrify you by my letters.

King James Bible
That I may not seem as if I would terrify you by letters.

World English Bible
that I may not seem as if I desire to terrify you by my letters.

Young's Literal Translation
that I may not seem as if I would terrify you through the letters,

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