2 Corinthians 10:10 Parallel Translations

I know that someone is saying that my letters are powerful and strong, but that I'm a weakling and a terrible speaker.(GOD'S WORD®)

KJV:

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

ASV:

For, His letters, they say, are weighty and strong; but his bodily presence is weak, and his speech of no account.

BBE:

For his letters, they say, have weight and are strong; but in body he is feeble, and his way of talking has little force.

DBY:

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

ERV:

For, His letters, they say, are weighty and strong; but his bodily presence is weak, and his speech of no account.

WEY:

For they say "His letters are authoritative and forcible, but his personal presence is unimpressive, and as for eloquence, he has none."

WBS:

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

WEB:

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

YLT:

because the letters indeed -- saith one -- are weighty and strong, and the bodily presence weak, and the speech despicable.'

2 Corinthians 10:10 Cross References

XREF:

1 Corinthians 1:17 For Christ did not send me to baptize, but to preach the gospel, not in cleverness of speech, so that the cross of Christ would not be made void.

1 Corinthians 2:3 I was with you in weakness and in fear and in much trembling,

2 Corinthians 11:6 But even if I am unskilled in speech, yet I am not so in knowledge; in fact, in every way we have made this evident to you in all things.

2 Corinthians 12:7 Because of the surpassing greatness of the revelations, for this reason, to keep me from exalting myself, there was given me a thorn in the flesh, a messenger of Satan to torment me-- to keep me from exalting myself!

Galatians 4:13 but you know that it was because of a bodily illness that I preached the gospel to you the first time; (NASB ©1995)

Commentaries and Concordances

GSB:

10:10 For [his] letters, say {g} they, [are] weighty and powerful; but [his] bodily presence [is] weak, and [his] speech contemptible.
(g) He notes out those who were the cause of these words.

PNT:

10:9,10 That I may not seem as if I would terrify you by letters. His enemies said that his letters were weighty and stern, but his presence was very different. In other words, he terrified by empty threats.

WES:

10:10 His bodily presence is weak - His stature, says St. Chrysostom, was low, his body crooked, and his head bald.

MHC:

10:7-11 In outward appearance, Paul was mean and despised in the eyes of some, but this was a false rule to judge by. We must not think that none outward appearance, as if the want of such things proved a man not to be a real Christian, or an able, faithful minister of the lowly Saviour.

CONC:

Account Amounts Authoritative Bodily Body Contemptible Despicable Despised Eloquence Feeble Force Forceful Forcible Indeed Letters Naught None Nothing Personal Powerful Presence Says Speaking Speech Strong Talking Unimpressive Weak Weight Weighty

Account Amounts Authoritative Bodily Body Contemptible Despicable Despised Eloquence Feeble Force Forceful Forcible Indeed Letters Naught Personal Powerful Presence Speaking Speech Strong Talking Way Weak Weight Weighty

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