2 Corinthians 3:1
Do we begin again anew to show who we are? or do we need as others to write epistles of commendation to you concerning ourselves, or that you should write to commend us?
The Peschito Syriac New Testament: Translated into English by John Wesley Etheridge
In The King James Version
In Context
2But you yourselves are our epistle, written in our hearts, and known and read of every man.
Cross References
Acts 18:27And when he willed to go to Akaia, the brethren were careful of him, and wrote to the disciples to receive him. And when he had gone he helped much, through grace, all the believers.
1 Corinthians 4:15For if you have ten thousand teachers in the Meshiha, yet not many fathers; for in Jeshu Meshiha I have begotten you through the gospel.
1 Corinthians 16:3And when I come, those whom you shall choose, them will I send with an epistle, that they may take your bounty to Urishlem.
2 Corinthians 5:12For we commend not ourselves again to you, but we give you cause to be boastful of us to them who in appearance boast, but not in heart.
2 Corinthians 10:12For we dare not value or compare ourselves with those who glorify themselves; but because they compare themselves with themselves, they do not understand.
2 Corinthians 12:19DO you again consider that we apologize to you? Before Aloha in the Meshiha do we speak; and all, my beloved, for the sake of your up-building.
Matthew Henry on 2 Corinthians 3:1
The apostle makes an apology for his seeming to commend himself, and is careful not to assume too much to himself, but to ascribe all praise unto God, ver. 1-5 . He then draws a comparison between the Old Testament and the New, and shows the excellency of the later above the former ( ver. 6-11 ), whence he infers what is the duty of gospel ministers, and the advantage of those who live under the gospel above those who lived under the law, ver. 12, to the end . Read the whole commentary →