LITV(i)
6 and having readiness to avenge all disobedience, whenever your obedience is fulfilled.
7 Do you look at things according to appearance? If anyone has persuaded himself to be of Christ, let him think this again as to himself, that as he is of Christ, so also we are of Christ.
8 For even if I also somewhat more fully should boast about our authority (which the Lord gave us for building up and not for pulling you down), I will not be put to shame;
9 so that I may not seem to frighten you by letters.
10 Because, they say, the letters are weighty and strong, but the bodily presence is weak, and his speech being despised.
11 Let such a one think this, that such as we are in word through letters, being absent, such we are also being present in deed.