10For, |His letters,| they say, |are weighty and strong, but his bodily presence is weak, and his speech is despised.|
10For, |His letters,| they say, |are weighty and strong, but his bodily presence is weak, and his speech is despised.|
7 Do you look at things only as they appear in front of your face? If anyone trusts in himself that he is Christ's, let him consider this again with himself, that, even as he is Christ's, so also we are Christ's.
8 For though I should boast somewhat abundantly concerning our authority, (which the Lord gave for building you up, and not for casting you down) I will not be disappointed,
9 that I may not seem as if I desire to terrify you by my letters.
10 For, |His letters,| they say, |are weighty and strong, but his bodily presence is weak, and his speech is despised.|
11 Let such a person consider this, that what we are in word by letters when we are absent, such are we also in deed when we are present.
12 For we are not bold to number or compare ourselves with some of those who commend themselves. But they themselves, measuring themselves by themselves, and comparing themselves with themselves, are without understanding.
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.
10:10because 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.