Sawyer(i)
6 and being ready to punish every disobedience, when your obedience is completed.
7 (3:2) You see things according to appearances. If any one trusts in himself that he is Christ's, let him consider again with himself that as he is Christ's so also are we.
8 For if I should even boast some of our authority which the Lord gave for your edification, and not for your destruction, I should not be ashamed.
9 [But I forbear,] that I may not seem as though I would terrify you by epistles.
10 For the epistles, say they, are weighty and powerful, but the bodily presence is weak and speech contemptible.
11 Let such a one think, that such as we are in word by epistles when absent, such also will we be in work when present.