2 Corinthians 10:10

For his letters, says one, are weighty and powerful, but his bodily presence is weak, and his style of speech contemptible.

Henry Tompkins Anderson’s 1864 New Testament

In The King James Version

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

In Context

9that I may not seem as if I would terrify you by letters.

11Let such a one conclude thus―that such as we are in word, by letters, while absent, such also will we be in deed, when present.

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Cross References

1 Corinthians 1:21For, since in the wisdom of God, the world, by its wisdom, knew not God, it has pleased God, through the foolishness of what is preached, to save those who believe.

2 Corinthians 10:1Now I, the same Paul, who, when present among you, am timid, but when absent, am bold toward you, entreat you, by the mildness and gentleness of Christ;

2 Corinthians 11:6But if I am unpolished in my style of speech, yet I am not so in knowledge. But we have been fully manifested among you in all things.

Galatians 4:13You know that through weakness of the flesh I preached the gospel to you at the first:

Matthew Henry on 2 Corinthians 10:8-12

The Apostle's Spiritual Authority. ( a. d. 57.) 7 Do ye 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 hath 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… Read the whole commentary →

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