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6 and are ready to take vengeance upon every disobedience when your obedience is complete.
7 Look at what is right before your eyes. If any one is confident that he belongs to Christ, let him again consider this regarding himself, that just as he belongs to Christ so also do we.
8 For if I boast somewhat excessively of our authority, which the Lord gave for building you up and not for pulling you down, I shall not be ashamed.
9 Let me not seem as if meaning to frighten you by letters.
10 Because, "His letters," they say, "are mighty and strong, but his bodily presence is weak and his speaking amounts to nothing."
11 Let such a person consider this, that what we are in words by letters when absent such we will be in deeds when present.