2 Corinthians 10:7-11

21st Century King James Version

⁷ Do ye look on things according to the outward appearance? If any man trust himself that he is Christ’s, let him of himself think this again, that, as he is Christ’s, even so are we Christ’s.

⁸ For though I should boast somewhat more of our authority (which the Lord hath given us for edification, and not for your destruction), I should not be ashamed,

⁹ that I may not seem as if I would terrify you by letters.

¹⁰ “For his letters,” say they, “are weighty and powerful, but his bodily presence is weak, and his speech contemptible.”

¹¹ Let such a one think this: that as we are in word by letters when we are absent, so will we be also in deed when we are present.