Moffatt(i)
8 (Fail or succeed, I cannot work against the truth but for it!)
9 I am glad to be weak if you are strong; mend your ways, that is all I ask.
10 I am writing thus to you in absence, so that when I do come I may not have to deal sharply with you; I have the Lord's authority for that, but he gave it to me for building you up, not for demolishing you.