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6 and having all in readiness to avenge every disobedience, whenever your obedience may be completed. "
7 Are you looking at that on the surface? If anyone is presuming to have confidence in himself to be Christ's, let him be reckoning this again with himself, that, according as he is Christ's, thus also are we. "
8 For if ever I, besides, should also be boasting somewhat more excessively concerning our authority (which the Lord gives us for building you up and not for pulling you down), "
9 lest I should seem as ever terrifying you through epistles, "
10 seeing that he is averring, "His epistles, indeed, are weighty and strong, yet his bodily presence is weak and his expression to be scorned."
11 Let such a one be reckoning this, that such as we are in word, through epistles, being absent, such also, being present, are we in act. "