NIV: For some say, "His letters are weighty and forceful, but in person he is unimpressive and his speaking amounts to nothing."
NAS: For they say, "His letters are weighty and strong, but his personal presence is unimpressive and his speech contemptible."
KJV: For his letters, say they, are weighty and powerful; but his bodily presence is weak, and his speech contemptible.
GWT: I know that someone is saying that my letters are powerful and strong, but that I'm a weakling and a terrible speaker.
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.
DRB: (For his epistles indeed, say they, are weighty and strong; but his bodily presence is weak, and his speech contemptible,)
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.'
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