2 Corinthians 10:11
 2 Corinthians 10:11 
New International Version (©2011)
Such people should realize that what we are in our letters when we are absent, we will be in our actions when we are present.

New Living Translation (©2007)
Those people should realize that our actions when we arrive in person will be as forceful as what we say in our letters from far away.

English Standard Version (©2001)
Let such a person understand that what we say by letter when absent, we do when present.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
Let such a person consider this, that what we are in word by letters when absent, such persons we are also in deed when present.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
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.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
Such a person should consider this: What we are in the words of our letters when absent, we will be in actions when present.

International Standard Version (©2012)
Someone like this should take note of the following: What we say by letter when we are absent is what we will do when present!

NET Bible (©2006)
Let such a person consider this: What we say by letters when we are absent, we also are in actions when we are present.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English (©2010)
But let him who speaks in this way consider this, that as we are in the message of our epistles when we are absent, so we are also in deeds when we are present.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
The person who is saying those things should take note of this fact: When we are with you we will do the things that we wrote about in our letters when we weren't with you.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
Let such a 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.

American King James Version
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.

American Standard Version
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.

Douay-Rheims Bible
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.

Darby Bible Translation
Let such a one think this, that such as we are in word by letters when absent, such also present in deed.

English Revised Version
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.

Webster's Bible Translation
Let such 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.

Weymouth New Testament
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.

World English Bible
Let such a person consider this, that what we are in word by letters when we are absent, such are we also in deed when we are present.

Young's Literal Translation
This one -- let him reckon thus: that such as we are in word, through letters, being absent, such also, being present, we are in deed.

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

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.


Pulpit Commentary

Verse 11. - Such a one. A formula used to avoid mentioning a special name (see note on 2 Corinthians 2:7). Such will we be; rather, such are we. The verb is not expressed, but it would have been if the future tense had been intended. In this verse St. Paul is not saying what he would do hereafter, but is rebutting with calmness and dignity the false charge that he was in any way different when absent from what he was when present.


Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Let such an one think this,.... The apostle seems to have in view some one particular person, though he does not choose to name him, who had more especially reproached him after this manner; and who was either one of the members of this church, or rather one of the false apostles: and so in the foregoing verse, instead of "say they", in which way both the Syriac and Vulgate Latin read, and is followed in our version, it is in the original text "says he", or "he says"; and so a certain particular person seems designed in 2 Corinthians 11:4 whom the apostle would have to know and conclude with himself, and of which he might fully assure himself, that such as we are in word by letters, when we are absent, such will be also in deed, when we are present: he threatens the calumniator, that he should find him, to his sorrow, the same man present as absent; that what he sent by letters, should be found to be fact, when he came again; whose coming would not be with all that tenderness and gentleness, as when he first preached the Gospel to them, for which there was then a reason; since he and others had swerved from the truths of the Gospel, and the right ways of God, which would require the severity he threatened them with, and the execution of which might be depended upon.


Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

11. think this—"consider this."

such will we be—or "are," in general, not merely shall we be at our next visit.


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Paul Defends his Ministry
10For his letters, say they, are weighty and powerful; but his bodily presence is weak, and his speech contemptible. 11Let 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. 12For 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. …

2 Corinthians 10:10 For some say, "His letters are weighty and forceful, but in person he is unimpressive and his speaking amounts to nothing."
2 Corinthians 10:12 We do not dare to classify or compare ourselves with some who commend themselves. When they measure themselves by themselves and compare themselves with themselves, they are not wise.
2 Corinthians 13:2 I already gave you a warning when I was with you the second time. I now repeat it while absent: On my return I will not spare those who sinned earlier or any of the others,