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


In Context

6 and being in readiness to avenge all disobedience, when your obedience shall be fulfilled.

7 Ye look at the things that are before your face. If any man trusteth in himself that he is Christ's, let him consider this again with himself, that, even as he is Christ's, so also are we.

8 For though I should glory somewhat abundantly concerning our authority (which the Lord gave for building you up, and not for casting you down), I shall not be put to shame:

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

10 For, His letters, they say, are weighty and strong; but his bodily presence is weak, and his speech of no account.

11 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.

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 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,

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

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