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


In Context

6 And we will be ready to punish every act of disobedience, once your obedience is complete.

7 You are looking only on the surface of things. If anyone is confident that he belongs to Christ, he should consider again that we belong to Christ just as much as he.

8 For even if I boast somewhat freely about the authority the Lord gave us for building you up rather than pulling you down, I will not be ashamed of it.

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

10 For some say, "His letters are weighty and forceful, but in person he is unimpressive and his speaking amounts to nothing."

11 Such people should realize that what we are in our letters when we are absent, we will be in our actions when we are present.

2nd 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 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,

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

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