2 Corinthians 10:10

Weymouth NT

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

Cross References

1 Corinthians 1:17

Christ did not send me to baptize, but to proclaim the Good News; and not in merely wise words–lest the Cross of Christ should be deprived of its power.

1 Corinthians 1:21

For after the world by its wisdom –as God in His wisdom had ordained– had failed to gain the knowledge of God, God was pleased, by the apparent foolishness of the Message which we preach, to save those who accepted it.

2 Corinthians 10:1

But as for me Paul, I entreat you by the gentleness and self-forgetfulness of Christ–I who when among you have not an imposing personal presence, but when absent am fearlessly outspoken in dealing with you.

2 Corinthians 10:11

Let such people take this into their reckoning, that whatever we are in word by our letters when absent, the same are we also in act when present.

2 Corinthians 10:9

Let it not seem as if I wanted to frighten you by my letters.

2 Corinthians 11:21

I use the language of self-disparagement, as though I were admitting our own feebleness. Yet for whatever reason any one is `courageous' –I speak in mere folly– I also am courageous.

2 Corinthians 11:6

And if in the matter of speech I am no orator, yet in knowledge I am not deficient. Nay, we have in every way made that fully evident to you.

2 Corinthians 13:3

since you want a practical proof of the fact that Christ speaks by my lips–He who is not feeble towards you, but powerful among you.