Parallel 2COR 10:10

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AICNT For they [[indeed]][fn] say, “His letters are weighty and strong, but his bodily presence is weak, and his speech is of no account.”

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OEB For people say ‘His letters are impressive and vigorous, but his personal appearance is insignificant and his speaking contemptible.’

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

WMBB (Same as above)

NET because some say, “His letters are weighty and forceful, but his physical presence is weak and his speech is of no account.”

LSV “because the letters indeed,” says one, “[are] weighty and strong, and the bodily presence weak, and the speech despicable.”

FBV People say, “His letters are tough and severe, but in person he's feeble, and he's a useless speaker.”

TCNT For, “His letters,” they say, “are weighty and strong, but his bodily presence is weak, and his speech amounts to nothing.”

T4T I say that because some people are saying, “When Paul writes letters, he says severe things in order to make you obey him, but when he is here with you, people look at him and say he is weak, and he certainly is not a skillful speaker.”

LEB because it is said, “His letters are severe and powerful, but his bodily presence is weak and his speech is 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.

Moff No Moff 2COR book available

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

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

DRA (For his epistles indeed, say they, are weighty and strong; but his bodily presence is weak, and his speech contemptible,)

YLT 'because the letters indeed — saith one — [are] weighty and strong, and the bodily presence weak, and the speech despicable.'

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

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

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

KJB-1769 For his letters, say they, are weighty and powerful; but his bodily presence is weak, and his speech contemptible.

KJB-1611 For his letters (say they) are waighty and powerfull, but his bodily presence is weake, and his speach contemptible.
   (For his letters (say they) are waighty and powerfull, but his bodily presence is weake, and his speech contemptible.)

Bshps For the letters sayth he, are sore and strong: but his bodyly presence is weake, and his speache rude.
   (For the letters saith/says he, are sore and strong: but his bodyly presence is weake, and his speeche rude.)

Gnva For the letters, sayeth hee, are sore and strong, but his bodily presence is weake, and his speache is of no value.
   (For the letters, sayeth he, are sore and strong, but his bodily presence is weake, and his speeche is of no value. )

Cvdl For the pistles (saye they) are sore and stronge, but his bodely presence is weake, and his speache rude.
   (For the pistles (saye they) are sore and stronge, but his bodely presence is weake, and his speeche rude.)

TNT For the pistles (sayth he) are sore and stronge: but his bodyly presence is weake and his speache rude.
   (For the pistles (sayth he) are sore and stronge: but his bodyly presence is weak and his speeche rude. )

Wycl for thei seien, That epistlis ben greuouse and stronge, but the presence of the bodi is feble, and the word worthi to be dispisid.
   (for they said, That epistlis been greuouse and stronge, but the presence of the body is feble, and the word worthy to be dispisid.)

Luth Denn die Briefe (sprechen, sie) sind schwer und stark; aber die Gegenwärtigkeit des Leibes ist schwach und die Rede verächtlich.
   (Because the Briefe (sprechen, sie) are schwer and stark; but the Gegenwärtigkeit the Leibes is schwach and the Rede verächtlich.)

ClVg quoniam quidem epistolæ, inquiunt, graves sunt et fortes: præsentia autem corporis infirma, et sermo contemptibilis:
   (quoniam indeed epistolæ, inquiunt, graves are and strong: præsentia however corporis infirma, and sermo contemptibilis: )

UGNT ὅτι, αἱ ἐπιστολαὶ μέν, φησίν, βαρεῖαι καὶ ἰσχυραί, ἡ δὲ παρουσία τοῦ σώματος ἀσθενὴς, καὶ ὁ λόγος ἐξουθενημένος.
   (hoti, hai epistolai men, faʸsin, bareiai kai isⱪurai, haʸ de parousia tou sōmatos asthenaʸs, kai ho logos exouthenaʸmenos.)

SBL-GNT ὅτι Αἱ ⸂ἐπιστολαὶ μέν⸃, φησίν, βαρεῖαι καὶ ἰσχυραί, ἡ δὲ παρουσία τοῦ σώματος ἀσθενὴς καὶ ὁ λόγος ἐξουθενημένος.
   (hoti Hai ⸂epistolai men⸃, faʸsin, bareiai kai isⱪurai, haʸ de parousia tou sōmatos asthenaʸs kai ho logos exouthenaʸmenos.)

TC-GNT Ὅτι, Αἱ [fn]μὲν ἐπιστολαί, φησί, βαρεῖαι καὶ ἰσχυραί· ἡ δὲ παρουσία τοῦ σώματος ἀσθενής, καὶ ὁ λόγος ἐξουθενημένος.
   (Hoti, Hai men epistolai, faʸsi, bareiai kai isⱪurai; haʸ de parousia tou sōmatos asthenaʸs, kai ho logos exouthenaʸmenos. )

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Key for above GNTs: yellow:punctuation differs, red:words differ (from our SR-GNT base).