11 Let such a one think this, that such as we are in word by letters [when] absent, such also present in deed.

Matthew Henry's Commentary on 2 Corinthians 10:11

Commentary on 2 Corinthians 10:7-11

(Read 2 Corinthians 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.