2 Corinthians 10:9
Modern Translations
New International Version
I do not want to seem to be trying to frighten you with my letters.

New Living Translation
I’m not trying to frighten you by my letters.

English Standard Version
I do not want to appear to be frightening you with my letters.

Berean Study Bible
I do not want to seem to be trying to frighten you by my letters.

New American Standard Bible
for I do not want to seem as if I would terrify you by my letters.

NASB 1995
for I do not wish to seem as if I would terrify you by my letters.

NASB 1977
for I do not wish to seem as if I would terrify you by my letters.

Amplified Bible
nor do I want to seem to be trying to frighten you with my letters;

Christian Standard Bible
I don’t want to seem as though I am trying to terrify you with my letters.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
I don't want to seem as though I am trying to terrify you with my letters.

Contemporary English Version
And I am not trying to scare you with my letters.

Good News Translation
I do not want it to appear that I am trying to frighten you with my letters.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
I don't want you to think that I'm trying to frighten you with my letters.

International Standard Version
I do not want you to think that I am trying to frighten you with my letters.

NET Bible
I do not want to seem as though I am trying to terrify you with my letters,
Classic Translations
King James Bible
That I may not seem as if I would terrify you by letters.

New King James Version
lest I seem to terrify you by letters.

King James 2000 Bible
That I may not seem as if I would terrify you by letters.

New Heart English Bible
that I may not seem as if I desire to terrify you by my letters.

World English Bible
that I may not seem as if I desire to terrify you by my letters.

American King James Version
That I may not seem as if I would terrify you by letters.

American Standard Version
that I may not seem as if I would terrify you by my letters.

A Faithful Version
In order that I may not seem as though I am frightening you by means of epistles.

Darby Bible Translation
that I may not seem as if I was frightening you by letters:

English Revised Version
that I may not seem as if I would terrify you by my letters.

Webster's Bible Translation
That I may not seem as if I would terrify you by letters.

Early Modern
Geneva Bible of 1587
This I say, that I may not seeme as it were to feare you with letters.

Bishops' Bible of 1568
Lest I should seeme as though I wet about to make you afrayde by letters.

Coverdale Bible of 1535
This I saye, lest I shulde seme, as though I wente aboute to make you afrayed with letters.

Tyndale Bible of 1526
This saye I lest I shuld seme as though I went about to make you a frayde with letters.
Literal Translations
Literal Standard Version
that I may not seem as if I would terrify you through the letters,

Berean Literal Bible
so that I might not seem as if to frighten you by means of the letters.

Young's Literal Translation
that I may not seem as if I would terrify you through the letters,

Smith's Literal Translation
Lest I seem as terrifying you by epistles.

Literal Emphasis Translation
So that I might not seem as if to frighten you through the letters.

Catholic Translations
Douay-Rheims Bible
But that I may not be thought as it were to terrify you by epistles,

Catholic Public Domain Version
But let it not be said that I am scaring you by means of epistles.

Translations from Aramaic
Aramaic Bible in Plain English
But I avoid it, lest it be supposed that I terrify you with my epistle,

Lamsa Bible
But I am hesitant, lest I seem as if I were trying to frighten you with my letter.

NT Translations
Anderson New Testament
that I may not seem as if I would terrify you by letters.

Godbey New Testament
in order that I may not seem as it were to terrify you by my letters.

Haweis New Testament
that I may not seem as if I would terrify you by letters.

Mace New Testament
but that I may not seem as if I would strike a terror in you by letters:

Weymouth New Testament
Let it not seem as if I wanted to frighten you by my letters.

Worrell New Testament
that I may not seem as if I would terrify you with letters;

Worsley New Testament
that I may not seem as if I would terrify you by letters;
















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