2 Corinthians 10:10

For, “His letters”, they say, “are weighty and strong, but his bodily presence is weak, and his speech is despised.”

World English Bible

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 desire to terrify you by my letters.

11Let 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.

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Cross References

Jeremiah 1:6Then I said, “Ah, Lord GOD! Behold, I don’t know how to speak; for I am a child.”

1 Corinthians 1:21For seeing that in the wisdom of God, the world through its wisdom didn’t know God, it was God’s good pleasure through the foolishness of the preaching to save those who believe.

2 Corinthians 10:1Now I Paul, myself, entreat you by the humility and gentleness of Christ, I who in your presence am lowly among you, but being absent am bold toward you.

2 Corinthians 11:6But though I am unskilled in speech, yet I am not unskilled in knowledge. No, in every way we have been revealed to you in all things.

Galatians 4:13but you know that because of weakness in the flesh I preached the Good News to you the first time.

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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