New Revised Standard Version
Let such people understand that what we say by letter when absent, we will also do when present.

Contemporary English Version
Those people had better understand that when I am with you, I will do exactly what I say in my letters.

New American Bible
Such a person must understand that what we are in word through letters when absent, that we also are in action when present.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Let such a one think this, that such as we are in word by epistles when absent, such also we will be indeed when present.

Let such a one think this, that such as we are in word by epistles when absent, such also we will be indeed when present.

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2 Corinthians 12:20 For I fear lest perhaps, when I come, I shall not find you such as I would, and that I shall be found by you such as you would not. Lest perhaps contentions, envyings, animosities, dissensions, detractions, whisperings, swellings, seditions, be among you.

2 Corinthians 13:2,3,10 I have told before and foretell, as present and now absent, to them that sinned before and to all the rest, that if I come again, I will not spare. . . .

1 Corinthians 4:19,20 But I will come to you shortly, if the Lord will: and will know, not the speech of them that are puffed up, but the power. . . .