For his letters, say they, are weighty and powerful; but his bodily presence is weak, and his speech contemptible.
2 Corinthians 10:11 - King James Version (Oxford) 1769 Let such an one think this, that, such as we are in word by letters when we are absent, such will we be also in deed when we are present. 更多版本Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Let such people realize that what we say by letters when we are absent, [we put] also into deeds when we are present– American Standard Version (1901) Let such a one reckon this, that, what we are in word by letters when we are absent, such are we also in deed when we are present. Common English Bible These people need to think about this—that when we are with you, our actions will show that we are the same as the words we wrote when we were away from you. Catholic Public Domain Version Let someone like this realize that whatever we are in word through epistles, while absent: we are much the same in deed, while present. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Let such a one think this, that such as we are in word by epistles, when absent, such also we will be indeed when present. English Standard Version 2016 Let such a person understand that what we say by letter when absent, we do when present. |
For his letters, say they, are weighty and powerful; but his bodily presence is weak, and his speech contemptible.
For we dare not make ourselves of the number, or compare ourselves with some that commend themselves: but they measuring themselves by themselves, and comparing themselves among themselves, are not wise.
For I fear, lest, when I come, I shall not find you such as I would, and that I shall be found unto you such as ye would not: lest there be debates, envyings, wraths, strifes, backbitings, whisperings, swellings, tumults:
Therefore I write these things being absent, lest being present I should use sharpness, according to the power which the Lord hath given me to edification, and not to destruction.