我不想你们认为我写信是要威吓你们。

我说这话，免得你们以为我写信是要威吓你们；

我说这话，免得你们以为我写信是要恐吓你们。

我说这话，免得你们以为我写信是要恐吓你们。

不要以为我写信是用来吓你们。

我不愿看起来像是在用书信恐吓你们。

我說這話，免得你們以為我寫信是要威嚇你們；

我說這話，免得你們以為我寫信是要恐嚇你們。

我說這話，免得你們以為我寫信是要恐嚇你們。

我不想你們認為我寫信是要威嚇你們。

不要以為我寫信是用來嚇你們。

免得我似乎藉着信去嚇唬你們。

我不願看起來像是在用書信恐嚇你們。

我言此、免似以書驚爾、

蓋余不欲以書驚爾、

我言此、免爾曹以為我寄書驚爾、

予作此言、庶免書面威脅之嫌。

I do not want to seem to be trying to frighten you with my letters.

Don’t think that I’m trying to scare you with my letters.

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

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

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

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

lest I seem to terrify you by letters.

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

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

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

I do not want to seem as though I am trying to terrify you with my letters,

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

因为有人说：“他信中的话有分量，很严厉，他本人却软弱无能，言语粗俗。”

但主若许可，我会很快去你们那里。那时我要看看这些骄傲的人究竟是只会空谈，还是真有上帝的权能。因为上帝的国不在于空谈，而在于权能。到底你们要什么呢？要我带着刑杖去呢？还是要我带着温柔慈爱的心去呢？

所以，时候未到，不可妄下断语。到主耶稣再来的时候，祂会揭开暗中的隐情，使人心里的动机显露。到时候上帝会给各人应得的称赞。