2 Corinthians 10:8

8. For In support of his assertion that, to say the least, he is as much Christ’s as they are, he now says that he need not be ashamed to boast much more decidedly of the authority received direct from the Lord than he ever has done. If they could claim to belong to a set who had even seen Christ and heard him preach, he had seen Christ, and had received from him a personal commission as an apostle.

Not for… destruction As the Christines are daring him to, 2 Corinthians 10:9-11. We here prefer the punctuation which places a period at close of 2 Corinthians 10:8, encloses 2 Corinthians 10:10 in a parenthesis, and makes a complete sentence of these three verses. The meaning is then clear: That I may not, according to their taunts, seem to try to frighten you by my letters, please assume that my presence will soon prove quite as powerful as my letters. What he lacks in personal presence will be supplied by apostolic authority.