6and being in readiness to avenge every disobedience, whenever your obedience may be fulfilled.
7The things in presence do ye see? if any one hath trusted in himself to be Christ`s, this let him reckon again from himself, that according as he is Christ`s, so also we [are] Christ`s;
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,
