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


In Context

6 and being in readiness to avenge every disobedience, whenever your obedience may be fulfilled.

7 The things in presence do ye see? if any one hath trusted in himself to be Christ's, this let him reckon again from himself, that according as he is Christ's, so also we are Christ's;

8 for even if also anything more abundantly I shall boast concerning our authority, that the Lord gave us for building up, and not for casting you down, I shall not be ashamed;

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

10 because the letters indeed — saith one — are weighty and strong, and the bodily presence weak, and the speech despicable.'

11 This one — let him reckon thus: that such as we are in word, through letters, being absent, such also, being present, we are in deed.

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 American King James Version of the Holy Bible

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