(A)Look at what is before your eyes. (B)If anyone is confident that he is Christ's, let him remind himself that just as (C)he is Christ's, (D)so also are we. For even if I boast a little too much of (E)our authority, which the Lord gave for building you up and not for destroying you, I will not be ashamed. I do not want to appear to be frightening you with my letters. 10 For they say, “His letters are weighty and strong, but (F)his bodily presence is weak, and (G)his speech of no account.” 11 Let such a person understand that what we say by letter when absent, we do when present.

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