10For some say, "His letters are weighty and forceful, but in person he is unimpressive and his speaking amounts to nothing."
10For some say, "His letters are weighty and forceful, but in person he is unimpressive and his speaking amounts to nothing."
7 You are looking only on the surface of things. If anyone is confident that he belongs to Christ, he should consider again that we belong to Christ just as much as he.
8 For even if I boast somewhat freely about the authority the Lord gave us for building you up rather than pulling you down, I will not be ashamed of it.
9 I do not want to seem to be trying to frighten you with my letters.
10 For some say, "His letters are weighty and forceful, but in person he is unimpressive and his speaking amounts to nothing."
11 Such people should realize that what we are in our letters when we are absent, we will be in our actions when we are present.
12 We do not dare to classify or compare ourselves with some who commend themselves. When they measure themselves by themselves and compare themselves with themselves, they are not wise.
10:10For [his] letters, say they, [are] weighty and powerful; but [his] bodily presence [is] weak, and [his] speech contemptible.
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.'
10:10For his letters, say they, are weighty and powerful; but his bodily presence is weak, and his speech contemptible.