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2 Corinthians 3:1
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Christ’s Epistle

1 Do awe begin again to commend ourselves? Or do we need, as some others, bepistles of commendation to you or letters of commendation from you?  
2 aYou are our epistle written in our hearts, known and read by all men;  
3 clearly you are an epistle of Christ, aministered by us, written not with ink but by the Spirit of the living God, not bon tablets of stone but con tablets of flesh, that is, of the heart.  

The Spirit, Not the Letter

4 And we have such trust through Christ toward God.
5 aNot that we are sufficient of ourselves to think of anything as being from ourselves, but bour sufficiency is from God,  
6 who also made us sufficient as aministers of bthe new covenant, not cof the letter but of the Spirit; for dthe letter kills, ebut the Spirit gives life.  

Glory of the New Covenant

7 But if athe ministry of death, bwritten and engraved on stones, was glorious, cso that the children of Israel could not look steadily at the face of Moses because of the glory of his countenance, which glory was passing away,  
8 how will athe ministry of the Spirit not be more glorious?  
9 For if the ministry of condemnation had glory, the ministry aof righteousness exceeds much more in glory.  
10 For even what was made glorious had no glory in this respect, because of the glory that excels.
Verse Comparison: 2 Corinthians 3:1

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American Standard Version
Are we beginning again to commend ourselves? or need we, as do some, epistles of commendation to you or from you?

Amplified® Bible
ARE WE starting to commend ourselves again? Or we do not, like some [false teachers], need written credentials {or} letters of recommendation to you or from you, [do we]?

Contemporary English Version
Are we once again bragging about ourselves? Do we need letters to you or from you to tell others about us? Some people do need letters that tell about them.

Darby English Version
Do we begin again to commend ourselves? or do we need, as some, commendatory letters to you, or [commendatory] from you?

Good News Bible
Does this sound as if we were again boasting about ourselves? Could it be that, like some other people, we need letters of recommendation to you or from you?

International Standard Version
Are we beginning to recommend ourselves again? Unlike some people, we do not need letters of recommendation to you or from you, do we?

King James Version
Do we begin again to commend ourselves? or need we, as some others, epistles of commendation to you, or letters of commendation from you?

New American Standard Bible
Are we beginning to commend ourselves again? Or do we need, as some, letters of commendation to you or from you?

New International Version
Are we beginning to commend ourselves again? Or do we need, like some people, letters of recommendation to you or from you?

New King James Version
Do we begin again to commend ourselves? Or do we need, as some others, epistles of commendation to you or letters of commendation from you?

N.A.S.B. in E-Prime
Do we begin to commend ourselves again? Or do we need, as some, letters of commendation to you or from you?

Young's Literal Translation
Do we begin again to recommend ourselves, except we need, as some, letters of recommendation unto you, or from you?


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