Therefore we always behave undauntedly; knowing that while we are sojourning in the body, we are absent from the Lord:

We behave undauntedly, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and present with the Lord.

Therefore we are ambitious, whether present, or absent, to be well-pleasing to him.

Now I Paul myself, who when present am base among you, but being absent am bold toward you, intreat you, by the meekness and gentleness of Christ,

Let such an one think this, that such as we are in word by letters, when we are absent, such are we also in deed, when we are present.

I told you before, and do tell before-hand (though now absent, as if I were present the second time) those who had sinned before, and all the rest, that, if I come again, I will not spare:

Therefore I write these things being absent, lest being present I should use severity, according to the power which the Lord hath given me, for edification, and not for destruction.