2 Corinthians 10:9
That I may not seem as if I would terrify you by letters.
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Context
7 Do ye look on things after the outward appearance? If any man trust to himself that he is Messiah's, let him of himself think this again, that, as he Messiah's, even so we Messiah's.
8 For though I should boast somewhat more of our authority, which the Lord has given us for edification, and not for your destruction, I should not be ashamed:
9 That I may not seem as if I would terrify you by letters.
10 For letters, say they, weighty and powerful; but bodily presence weak, and speech contemptible.
11 Let such an one think this, that, such as we are in word by letters when we are absent, such also in deed when we are present.