9. May I not seem as one frightening you through letters.
10. For someone will say, “His letters are severe and forceful, but his bodily presence is weak, and his speech contemptible.”
11. Such a person must understand that what we are in word through letters when absent, that we also are in action when present.
12. Not that we dare to class or compare ourselves with some of those who recommend themselves. But when they measure themselves by one another and compare themselves with one another, they are without understanding.
13. But we will not boast beyond measure but will keep to the limits God has apportioned us, namely, to reach even to you.