11Let such an one think this, that, such as we are in word by letters when we are absent, such will we be also in deed when we are present.
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Therefore I write these things being absent, lest being present I should use sharpness, according to the power which the Lord hath given me to edification, and not to destruction.
For I fear, lest, when I come, I shall not find you such as I would, and that I shall be found unto you such as ye would not: lest there be debates, envyings, wraths, strifes, backbitings, whisperings, swellings, tumults:
I told you before, and foretell you, as if I were present, the second time; and being absent now I write to them which heretofore have sinned, and to all other, that, if I come again, I will not spare: …
But I will come to you shortly, if the Lord will, and will know, not the speech of them which are puffed up, but the power. …
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 7-11)In these verses the apostle proceeds to reason the case with the Corinthians, in opposition to those who despised him, judged him, and spoke hardly of him: “ Do you ,” says he, “ look on things after the outward appearance ? 2 Cor. 10:7. Isa. this a fit measure or rule to make an estimate of things or persons by, and to judge between me and my adversaries?” In outward appearance, Paul was mean and…
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