2 Corinthians 10:9 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁹That I may not seem as if I would terrify you by letters.

2 Corinthians 10:9 —

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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 Corinthians 4:19-21
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. …
2 Corinthians 10:10
For his letters, say they, are weighty and powerful; but his bodily presence is weak, and his speech contemptible.
1 Corinthians 4:5
Therefore judge nothing before the time, until the Lord come, who both will bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and will make manifest the counsels of the hearts: and then shall every man have praise of God.

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Commentary

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 d…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 9)

9. I say this lest I should seem to be terrifying you, as children, with empty threats [Bengel]. Estius explains, “I might boast more of my authority, but I forbear to do so, that I may not seem as if,” &c. But this ellipsis is harsh: and 2Co 10:10, 11 confirm Bengel’s view.