2 Corinthians 3:2

You are our letter, written in our experience with you, that everybody reads and knows about.

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In The King James Version

Ye are our epistle written in our hearts, known and read of all men:

In Context

1Are we starting to speak well of ourselves again? Or do we need to have some letter of recommendation for you, or from you, as some people do?

3You demonstrate that you are a letter from Christ, delivered by us; not written with ink but with the Spirit of the living God; not written on stone slabs but in our living experience as human beings.

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Cross References

1 Corinthians 3:10Through the grace of God that he gave to me, I laid down the foundation like a skilled building supervisor. Now someone else is building on it. Whoever does the building needs to watch what they're doing.

2 Corinthians 7:3I'm not saying this to condemn you—as I already told you, you mean so much to us that we live and die together with you!

2 Corinthians 12:15I will happily spend myself, and be spent, for you. If I love you so much more, will you love me even less?

1 Thessalonians 1:8You have broadcast the Lord's message, not only in Macedonia and Greece, but everywhere people have heard of your trust in God—so there's no need for us to tell anybody about it!

Matthew Henry on 2 Corinthians 3:2-6

Apology for Seeming Self-Commendation. ( a. d. 57.) 1 Do we begin again to commend ourselves? or need we, as some others, epistles of commendation to you, or letters of commendation from you? 2 Ye are our epistle written in our hearts, known and read of all men: 3 Forasmuch as ye are manifestly declared to be the epistle of Christ ministered by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; not in tables of stone, but in fleshy tables of the heart. 4 And such trust have we through Christ to… Read the whole commentary →

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