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


In Context

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.

2nd 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 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 Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

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

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.