⁶ But I trust that you will know that we are not disqualified.

^10 (A)Therefore I write these things being absent, lest being present I should use sharpness, according to the ^(B)authority which the Lord has given me for edification and not for destruction.

³ since you seek a proof of Christ ^(A)speaking in me, who is not weak toward you, but mighty ^(B)in you. ^4 (C)For though He was crucified in weakness, yet ^(D)He lives by the power of God. For ^(E)we also are weak in Him, but we shall live with Him by the power of God toward you.

²⁰ For I fear lest, when I come, I shall not find you such as I wish, and that ^(A)I shall be found by you such as you do not wish; lest there be contentions, jealousies, outbursts of wrath, selfish ambitions, backbitings, whisperings, conceits, tumults;