American Standard Version
"that I may not seem as if I would terrify you by my letters. "
— 2 Corinthians 10:9, American Standard Version
“That I may not seem as if I would terrify you by letters.”
“that I may not seem as if I desire to terrify you by my letters.”
“I do not want to seem as though I am trying to terrify you with my letters,”
“But that I may not be thought as it were to terrify you by epistles,”
“That I may not seem to have the desire of causing you fear by my letters.”
“That I may not seem as if I would terrify you by letters.”
and being in readiness to avenge all disobedience, when your obedience shall be made full.
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.
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:
that I may not seem as if I would terrify you by my letters.
For, His letters, they say, are weighty and strong; but his bodily presence is weak, and his speech of no account.
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.
For we are not bold to number or compare ourselves with certain of them that commend themselves: but they themselves, measuring themselves by themselves, and comparing themselves with themselves, are without understanding.