2 Corinthians 10:9
That I may not seem as if I would terrify you by letters.In other versions
that I may not seem as if I would terrify you by my letters.
ASV
That I may not seem to have the desire of causing you fear by my letters.
BBE
that I may not seem as if I was frightening you by letters:
DBY
that I may not seem as if I desire to terrify you by my letters.
WEB
that I may not seem as if I would terrify you through the letters,
YLT
That I may not seem as if I would terrify you by letters.
ENG
That I may not seem as if I would terrify you by letters.
WBT
I do not want to seem to be trying to frighten you by my letters.
BSB
In context
7Do ye 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.
8For though I should boast somewhat more of our authority, which the Lord hath given us for edification, and not for your destruction, I should not be ashamed:
9That I may not seem as if I would terrify you by letters.
10For his letters, say they, are weighty and powerful; but his bodily presence is weak, and his speech contemptible.
11Let 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.