2 Corinthians 10:8-10

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

⁸ For if also I should boast somewhat more of our power, which the Lord hath given us unto edification, and not for your destruction, I should not be ashamed.

⁹ But that I may not be thought as it were to terrify you by epistles,

¹⁰ (For his epistles indeed, say they, are weighty and strong; but his bodily presence is weak, and his speech contemptible,)