6. And we are ready to punish all disobedience, whenever your obedience is completed.
7. You are looking at things according to appearance. If anyone is convinced he himself is Christ’s, he should consider this concerning himself again: that just as Christ himself is, so also are we.
8. For even if I boast somewhat more about our authority that the Lord gave us for building you up and not for tearing you down, I will not be put to shame,
9. so that I do not want to appear as if I were terrifying you by my letters,
10. because it is said, “His letters are severe and powerful, but his bodily presence is weak and his speech is of no account.”
11. Let such a person consider this: that what we are in word by letters when we are absent, we will also be in actions when we are present.
12. For we do not dare to classify or to compare ourselves with some who commend themselves, but they themselves, when they measure themselves by themselves and compare themselves with themselves, do not understand.