Parallel Verses
Thomas Haweis New Testament
that I may not seem as if I would terrify you by letters.
New American Standard Bible
King James Version
That I may not seem as if I would terrify you by letters.
Holman Bible
I don’t want to seem as though I am trying to terrify you with my letters.
International Standard Version
I do not want you to think that I am trying to frighten you with my letters.
A Conservative Version
so that I would not seem as if to terrify you by the letters.
American Standard Version
that I may not seem as if I would terrify you by my letters.
Amplified
nor do I want to seem to be trying to frighten you with my letters;
An Understandable Version
[Now] I do not want to appear to be trying to scare you by my letters.
Anderson New Testament
that I may not seem as if I would terrify you by letters.
Bible in Basic English
That I may not seem to have the desire of causing you fear by my letters.
Common New Testament
I do not wish to seem as if I would terrify you by my letters.
Daniel Mace New Testament
but that I may not seem as if I would strike a terror in you by letters:
Darby Translation
that I may not seem as if I was frightening you by letters:
Godbey New Testament
in order that I may not seem as it were to terrify you by my letters.
Goodspeed New Testament
I do not want to seem to scare you with my letters.
John Wesley New Testament
That I may not seem to terrify you by letters.
Julia Smith Translation
Lest I seem as terrifying you by epistles.
King James 2000
That I may not seem as if I would terrify you by letters.
Lexham Expanded Bible
so that I do not want to appear as if I were terrifying you by my letters,
Modern King James verseion
so that I might not seem to terrify you by letters.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
This say I, lest I should seem as though I went about to make you afraid with letters.
Moffatt New Testament
But I am not going to seem as if I were 'overawing you with a letter,' so to speak.
Montgomery New Testament
Let it not seem as if I were overawing you with my letters.
NET Bible
I do not want to seem as though I am trying to terrify you with my letters,
New Heart English Bible
that I may not seem as if I desire to terrify you by my letters.
Noyes New Testament
that I may not seem as if I would terrify you by my letters.
Sawyer New Testament
[But I forbear,] that I may not seem as though I would terrify you by epistles.
The Emphasized Bible
That I may not seem as though I would be terrifying you through means of my letters;
Twentieth Century New Testament
I say this, that it may not seem as if I were trying to overawe you by my letters.
Webster
That I may not seem as if I would terrify you by letters.
Weymouth New Testament
Let it not seem as if I wanted to frighten you by my letters.
Williams New Testament
I do not want to seem to be frightening you with my letters.
World English Bible
that I may not seem as if I desire to terrify you by my letters.
Worrell New Testament
that I may not seem as if I would terrify you with letters;
Worsley New Testament
that I may not seem as if I would terrify you by letters;
Youngs Literal Translation
that I may not seem as if I would terrify you through the letters,
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Fausets
Word Count of 37 Translations in 2 Corinthians 10:9
Verse Info
Context Readings
Paul's Ministry Defended
8 Yea, and if I should boast somewhat more highly of our authority, which the Lord hath given us for your edification, and not for your destruction, I shall not be ashamed; 9 that I may not seem as if I would terrify you by letters. 10 For his letters indeed, say they, are weighty and forcible, but his bodily presence is feeble, and his speech contemptible.
Cross References
1 Corinthians 4:5
Wherefore judge nothing before the time until the Lord come, who also will bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and will manifest the counsels of men's hearts; and then shall praise be given to each from God.
1 Corinthians 4:19-21
But I will come shortly unto you, if the Lord please, and will know, not the prating of them that are puffed up, but the power.
2 Corinthians 10:10
For his letters indeed, say they, are weighty and forcible, but his bodily presence is feeble, and his speech contemptible.