10because his letters, he says, are weighty and strong, but his presence in the body weak, and his speech naught.


In Context

7 Do ye look at what concerns appearance? If any one has confidence in himself that he is of Christ, let him think this again in himself, that even as he is of Christ, so also are we.

8 For and if I should boast even somewhat more abundantly of our authority, which the Lord has given to us for building up and not for your overthrowing, I shall not be put to shame;

9 that I may not seem as if I was frightening you by letters:

10 because his letters, he says, are weighty and strong, but his presence in the body weak, and his speech naught.

11 Let such a one think this, that such as we are in word by letters when absent, such also present in deed.

12 For we dare not class ourselves or compare ourselves with some who commend themselves; but these, measuring themselves by themselves, and comparing themselves with themselves, are not intelligent.

2 Corinthians 10:10 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

10:10For [his] letters, say they, [are] weighty and powerful; but [his] bodily presence [is] weak, and [his] speech contemptible.

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

10:10For some say, "His letters are weighty and forceful, but in person he is unimpressive and his speaking amounts to nothing."

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

10:10(For his epistles indeed, say they, are weighty and strong; but his bodily presence is weak, and his speech contemptible,)

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

10:10For, His letters, they say, are weighty and strong; but his bodily presence is weak, and his speech of no account.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

10:10For, His letters, they say, are weighty and strong; but his bodily presence is weak, and his speech of no account.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

10:10For his letters (say they) are weighty and powerful; but his bodily presence is weak, and his speech contemptible.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

10:10For, |His letters,| they say, |are weighty and strong, but his bodily presence is weak, and his speech is despised.|

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

10:10because the letters indeed — saith one — are weighty and strong, and the bodily presence weak, and the speech despicable.'

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

10:10For his letters, say they, are weighty and powerful; but his bodily presence is weak, and his speech contemptible.