8for even if also anything more abundantly I shall boast concerning our authority, that the Lord gave us for building up, and not for casting you down, I shall not be ashamed;
9that I may not seem as if I would terrify you through the letters,
10`because the letters indeed -- saith one -- [are] weighty and strong, and the bodily presence weak, and the speech despicable.`
11This one -- let him reckon thus: that such as we are in word, through letters, being absent, such also, being present, [we are] in deed.
12For we do not make bold to rank or to compare ourselves with certain of those commending themselves, but they, among themselves measuring themselves, and comparing themselves with themselves, are not wise,
13and we in regard to the unmeasured things will not boast ourselves, but after the measure of the line that the God of measure did appoint to us -- to reach even unto you;
14for not as not reaching to you do we stretch ourselves overmuch, for even unto you did we come in the good news of the Christ,
