2 Corinthians 10:9

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

that I may not seem as if I would terrify you through the letters,

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Referenced Verses

  • 1 Cor 4:5 : 5 so, then, nothing before the time judge ye, till the Lord may come, who will both bring to light the hidden things of the darkness, and will manifest the counsels of the hearts, and then the praise shall come to each from God.
  • 1 Cor 4:19-21 : 19 but I will come quickly unto you, if the Lord may will, and I will know not the word of those puffed up, but the power; 20 for not in word is the reign of God, but in power? 21 what do ye wish? with a rod shall I come unto you, or in love, with a spirit also of meekness?
  • 2 Cor 10:10 : 10 `because the letters indeed -- saith one -- `are' weighty and strong, and the bodily presence weak, and the speech despicable.'

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    10 `because the letters indeed -- saith one -- `are' weighty and strong, and the bodily presence weak, and the speech despicable.'

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    10 because of this, these things -- being absent -- I write, that being present, I may not treat `any' sharply, according to the authority that the Lord did give me for building up, and not for casting down.

  • 2 Cor 10:1-2
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    1 And I, Paul, myself, do call upon you -- through the meekness and gentleness of the Christ -- who in presence, indeed `am' humble among you, and being absent, have courage toward you,

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    3 and I sent the brethren, that our boasting on your behalf may not be made vain in this respect; that, according as I said, ye may be ready,

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  • 1 Cor 2:3-4
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  • 2 Cor 12:6
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    6 for if I may wish to boast, I shall not be a fool, for truth I will say; but I forebear, lest any one in regard to me may think anything above what he doth see me, or doth hear anything of me;

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    19 Again, think ye that to you we are making defence? before God in Christ do we speak; and the all things, beloved, `are' for your up-building,

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    11 I am afraid of you, lest in vain I did labour toward you.

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    16 Again I say, may no one think me to be a fool; and if otherwise, even as a fool receive me, that I also a little may boast.

    17 That which I speak, I speak not according to the Lord, but as in foolishness, in this the confidence of boasting;

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    5 for I reckon that I have been nothing behind the very chiefest apostles,

  • 2 Thess 2:2
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    2 that ye be not quickly shaken in mind, nor be troubled, neither through spirit, neither through word, neither through letters as through us, as that the day of Christ hath arrived;

  • 2 Thess 3:9
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    9 not because we have not authority, but that ourselves a pattern we might give to you, to imitate us;

  • 2 Cor 13:3
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    3 since a proof ye seek of the Christ speaking in me, who to you is not infirm, but is powerful in you,

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    1 For, indeed, concerning the ministration that `is' for the saints, it is superfluous for me to write to you,

  • 1 Cor 9:2
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    2 if to others I am not an apostle -- yet doubtless to you I am; for the seal of my apostleship are ye in the Lord.

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    9 for, for this also did I write, that I might know the proof of you, whether in regard to all things ye are obedient.

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    14 and the greater part of the brethren in the Lord, having confidence by my bonds, are more abundantly bold -- fearlessly to speak the word.

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    30 if to boast it behoveth `me', of the things of my infirmity I will boast;

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    12 and what I do, I also will do, that I may cut off the occasion of those wishing an occasion, that in that which they boast they may be found according as we also;

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    10 wherefore I am well pleased in infirmities, in damages, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses -- for Christ; for whenever I am infirm, then I am powerful;

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    3 and I wrote to you this same thing, that having come, I may not have sorrow from them of whom it behoved me to have joy, having confidence in you all, that my joy is of you all,

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    13 Many things I had to write, but I do not wish through ink and pen to write to thee,

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