2 Corinthians 10:9 I do not want to seem to be trying to frighten you with my letters.

◄ 2 Corinthians 10:9 ►

Parallel Verses

New International Version
I do not want to seem to be trying to frighten you with my letters.

English Standard Version
I do not want to appear to be frightening you with my letters.

New American Standard Bible
for I do not wish to 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.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
I don't want to seem as though I am trying to terrify you with my letters.

International Standard Version
I do not want you to think that I am trying to frighten you with my letters.

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

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

Darby Bible Translation
that I may not seem as if I was frightening you by letters:

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

Commentaries

Matthew Henry's Commentary

10:7-11 In outward appearance, Paul was mean and despised in the eyes of some, but this was a false rule to judge by. We must not think that none outward appearance, as if the want of such things proved a man not to be a real Christian, or an able, faithful minister of the lowly Saviour.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

9. I say this lest I should seem to be terrifying you, as children, with empty threats [Bengel]. Estius explains, "I might boast more of my authority, but I forbear to do so, that I may not seem as if," &c. But this ellipsis is harsh: and 2Co 10:10, 11 confirm Bengel's view.