10For his letters, say they, are weighty and powerful; but his bodily presence is weak, and his speech contemptible.
10For his letters, say they, are weighty and powerful; but his bodily presence is weak, and his speech contemptible.
7 Do you look on things after the outward appearance? If any man trust to himself that he is Christ's, let him of himself think this again, that, as he is Christ's, even so are we Christ's.
8 For though I should boast somewhat more of our authority, which the Lord has given us for edification, and not for your destruction, I should not be ashamed:
9 That I may not seem as if I would terrify you by letters.
10 For his letters, say they, are weighty and powerful; but his bodily presence is weak, and his speech contemptible.
11 Let such an one think this, that, such as we are in word by letters when we are absent, such will we be also in deed when we are present.
12 For we dare not make ourselves of the number, or compare ourselves with some that commend themselves: but they measuring themselves by themselves, and comparing themselves among themselves, are not wise.
10:10For [his] letters, say they, [are] weighty and powerful; but [his] bodily presence [is] weak, and [his] speech contemptible.
10:10For some say, "His letters are weighty and forceful, but in person he is unimpressive and his speaking amounts to nothing."
10:10(For his epistles indeed, say they, are weighty and strong; but his bodily presence is weak, and his speech contemptible,)
10:10For, His letters, they say, are weighty and strong; but his bodily presence is weak, and his speech of no account.
10:10because his letters, he says, are weighty and strong, but his presence in the body weak, and his speech naught.
10:10For, His letters, they say, are weighty and strong; but his bodily presence is weak, and his speech of no account.
10:10For his letters (say they) are weighty and powerful; but his bodily presence is weak, and his speech contemptible.
10:10For, |His letters,| they say, |are weighty and strong, but his bodily presence is weak, and his speech is despised.|
10:10because the letters indeed — saith one — are weighty and strong, and the bodily presence weak, and the speech despicable.'