2 Corinthians 10:8-11 For though I should boast somewhat more of our authority, which God hath given for edification, and not for your destruction, I should not be ashamed:

Whiston⁽ⁱ⁾ ⁸ For though I should boast somewhat more of our authority, which God hath given for edification, and not for your destruction, I should not be ashamed: ⁹ That we may not seem to terrify you by epistles. ¹⁰ For the epistles (says he) [are] weighty and powerfull, 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 [will we be] also in deed, when we are present.