9That I may not seem as if I would terrify you by letters.


In Context

6 And having in a readiness to revenge all disobedience, when your obedience is fulfilled.

7 Do you 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.

8 For though I should boast somewhat more of our authority, which the Lord has given us for edification, and not for your destruction, I should not be ashamed:

9 That I may not seem as if I would terrify you by letters.

10 For his letters, say they, are weighty and powerful; but his bodily presence is weak, and his speech contemptible.

11 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.

2 Corinthians 10:9 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

10:9That I may not seem as if I would terrify you by letters.

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

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

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

10:9But that I may not be thought as it were to terrify you by epistles,

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

10:9that I may not seem as if I would terrify you by my letters.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

10:9that I may not seem as if I was frightening you by letters:

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

10:9that I may not seem as if I would terrify you by my letters.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

10:9That I may not seem as if I would terrify you by letters.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

10:9that I may not seem as if I desire to terrify you by my letters.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

10:9that I may not seem as if I would terrify you through the letters,