Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

If I Boast In My Authority In Christ, I Will Not Be Put To Shame

⁷ You are^[a] looking at things according to appearance. If someone^[b] is confident in himself that he is Christ’s^[c], let him consider this again in himself: that just as he is Christ’s, so also are we. ⁸ For if I should boast anything more about our authority, which the Lord gave for building-up and not for tearing you down, I shall not be put-to-shame— ⁹ in order that I may not seem^[d] as-if I would [merely] frighten you by my letters! ¹⁰ Because “The letters”, he^[e] says, “are weighty and strong, but the presence of his body is weak, and his speaking is treated-with-contempt^[f]”. ¹¹ Let such a one consider this: that such as we are in word by letters while absent, such ones we are also in deed while present!