There are some amongst you that tell you, that indeed (when absent) I write severely, and with authority; but when I am there with you, neither my behaviour, nor my speech, speaks any such authority.
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2 Corinthians 10:10
10 For his letters, say they,d are weighty and powerful; but his bodily presence is weak, and his speech contemptible.