2 Corinthians 3:2

Our letter of recommendation is yourselves--a letter written on our hearts and everywhere known and read.

Weymouth NT (1912)

In The King James Version

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

In Context

1Do you say that this is self-recommendation once more? Or do we need, as some do, letters of recommendation to you or from you?

3For all can see that you are a letter of Christ entrusted to our care, and written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the ever-living God--and not on tablets of stone, but on human hearts as tablets.

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Cross References

1 Corinthians 3:10In discharge of the task which God graciously entrusted to me, I--like a competent master-builder--have laid a foundation, and others are building upon it. But let every one be careful how and what he builds.

2 Corinthians 7:3I do not say this to imply blame, for, as I have already said, you have such a place in our hearts that we would die with you or live with you.

2 Corinthians 12:15And as for me, most gladly will I spend all I have and be utterly spent for your salvation.

1 Thessalonians 1:8For it was not only from you that the Master's Message sounded forth throughout Macedonia and Greece; but everywhere your faith in God has become known, so that it is unnecessary for us to say anything 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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