7. Do you look at things from the outward appearance? If any man trusts that he is Christ’s, let him consider again that, as he is Christ’s, even so are we Christ’s.
8. For even if I should boast somewhat more of our authority, which the Lord has given us for edification and not for your destruction, I shall not be ashamed,
9. lest I appear to frighten you by my letters.
10. “For his letters,” they say, “are weighty and powerful, but his bodily presence is weak, and his speech contemptible.”