[a](A)You are looking at [b]things as they are outwardly. (B)If anyone is confident in himself that he is Christ’s, let him consider this again within himself, that just as he is Christ’s, (C)so also are we. For even if (D)I boast somewhat [c]further about our (E)authority, which the Lord gave for building you up and not for destroying you, I will not be put to shame, [d]for I do not wish to seem as if I would terrify you by my letters. 10 For they say, “His letters are weighty and strong, but his [e]personal presence is (F)unimpressive and (G)his speech contemptible.”

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Corinthians 10:7 Or Look at... or Do you look at...?
  2. 2 Corinthians 10:7 Lit what is before your face
  3. 2 Corinthians 10:8 Or more abundantly
  4. 2 Corinthians 10:9 Lit so that I may not seem
  5. 2 Corinthians 10:10 Lit bodily presence is weak