2 Corinthians 3:1

American Standard Version (1901)

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

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  • Acts 18:27 : 27 And when he was minded to pass over into Achaia, the brethren encouraged him, and wrote to the disciples to receive him: and when he was come, he helped them much that had believed through grace;
  • 2 Cor 5:12 : 12 We are not again commending ourselves unto you, but [speak] as giving you occasion of glorying on our behalf, that ye may have wherewith to answer them that glory in appearance, and not in heart.
  • 2 Cor 12:11 : 11 I am become foolish: ye compelled me; for I ought to have been commended of you: for in nothing was I behind the very chiefest apostles, though I am nothing.
  • 2 Cor 10:12 : 12 For we are not bold to number or compare ourselves with certain of them that commend themselves: but they themselves, measuring themselves by themselves, and comparing themselves with themselves, are without understanding.
  • 1 Cor 16:3 : 3 And when I arrive, whomsoever ye shall approve, them will I send with letters to carry your bounty unto Jerusalem:
  • 2 Cor 2:17 : 17 For we are not as the many, corrupting the word of God: but as of sincerity, but as of God, in the sight of God, speak we in Christ.
  • 2 Cor 10:8 : 8 For though I should glory somewhat abundantly concerning our authority (which the Lord gave for building you up, and not for casting you down), I shall not be put to shame:
  • 1 Cor 3:10 : 10 According to the grace of God which was given unto me, as a wise masterbuilder I laid a foundation; and another buildeth thereon. But let each man take heed how he buildeth thereon.
  • 1 Cor 4:15 : 15 For though ye have ten thousand tutors in Christ, yet [have ye] not many fathers; for in Christ Jesus I begat you through the gospel.
  • 1 Cor 10:33 : 33 even as I also please all men in all things, not seeking mine own profit, but the [profit] of the many, that they may be saved.
  • 2 Cor 12:19 : 19 Ye think all this time that we are excusing ourselves unto you. In the sight of God speak we in Christ. But all things, beloved, [are] for your edifying.

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  • 2 Cor 3:2-5
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    2Ye are our epistle, written in our hearts, known and read of all men;

    3being made manifest that ye are an 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 tables [that are] hearts of flesh.

    4And such confidence have we through Christ to God-ward:

    5not that we are sufficient of ourselves, to account anything as from ourselves; but our sufficiency is from God;

  • 2 Cor 5:12-13
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    12We are not again commending ourselves unto you, but [speak] as giving you occasion of glorying on our behalf, that ye may have wherewith to answer them that glory in appearance, and not in heart.

    13For whether we are beside ourselves, it is unto God; or whether we are of sober mind, it is unto you.

  • 1 Thess 2:4-6
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    4but even as we have been approved of God to be intrusted with the gospel, so we speak; not as pleasing men, but God who proveth our hearts.

    5For neither at any time were we found using words of flattery, as ye know, nor a cloak of covetousness, God is witness;

    6nor seeking glory of men, neither from you nor from others, when we might have claimed authority as apostles of Christ.

  • 2 Cor 10:11-13
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    11Let such a one reckon this, that, what we are in word by letters when we are absent, such [are we] also in deed when we are present.

    12For we are not bold to number or compare ourselves with certain of them that commend themselves: but they themselves, measuring themselves by themselves, and comparing themselves with themselves, are without understanding.

    13But we will not glory beyond [our] measure, but according to the measure of the province which God apportioned to us as a measure, to reach even unto you.

  • 2 Cor 1:12-14
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    12For our glorifying is this, the testimony of our conscience, that in holiness and sincerity of God, not in fleshly wisdom but in the grace of God, we behaved ourselves in the world, and more abundantly to you-ward.

    13For we write no other things unto you, than what ye read or even acknowledge, and I hope ye will acknowledge unto the end:

    14as also ye did acknowledge us in part, that we are your glorying, even as ye also are ours, in the day of our Lord Jesus.

  • 2 Thess 3:9
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    9not because we have not the right, but to make ourselves an ensample unto you, that ye should imitate us.

  • 2 Cor 12:19
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    19Ye think all this time that we are excusing ourselves unto you. In the sight of God speak we in Christ. But all things, beloved, [are] for your edifying.

  • 2 Cor 10:18
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    18For not he that commendeth himself is approved, but whom the Lord commendeth.

  • 2 Cor 10:7-9
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    7Ye look at the things that are before your face. If any man trusteth in himself that he is Christ's, let him consider this again with himself, that, even as he is Christ's, so also are we.

    8For though I should glory somewhat abundantly concerning our authority (which the Lord gave for building you up, and not for casting you down), I shall not be put to shame:

    9that I may not seem as if I would terrify you by my letters.

  • 1 Thess 2:1-2
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    1For yourselves, brethren, know our entering in unto you, that it hath not been found vain:

    2but having suffered before and been shamefully treated, as ye know, at Philippi, we waxed bold in our God to speak unto you the gospel of God in much conflict.

  • 2 Cor 4:5
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    5For we preach not ourselves, but Christ Jesus as Lord, and ourselves as your servants for Jesus' sake.

  • 2 Cor 7:2-3
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    2Open your hearts to us: we wronged no man, we corrupted no man, we took advantage of no man.

    3I say it not to condemn [you] : for I have said before, that ye are in our hearts to die together and live together.

  • 2 Cor 10:16
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    16so as to preach the gospel even unto the parts beyond you, [and] not to glory in another's province in regard of things ready to our hand.

  • 2 Cor 9:1
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    1For as touching the ministering to the saints, it is superfluous for me to write to you:

  • 1 Thess 4:1
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    1Finally then, brethren, we beseech and exhort you in the Lord Jesus, that, as ye received of us how ye ought to walk and to please God, even as ye do walk,--that ye abound more and more.

  • 1 Thess 3:9
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    9For what thanksgiving can we render again unto God for you, for all the joy wherewith we joy for your sakes before our God;

  • 2 Cor 8:6
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    6Insomuch that we exhorted Titus, that as he made a beginning before, so he would also complete in you this grace also.

  • 1 Cor 4:6
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    6Now these things, brethren, I have in a figure transferred to myself and Apollos for your sakes; that in us ye might learn not [to go] beyond the things which are written; that no one of you be puffed up for the one against the other.

  • 2 Cor 10:2
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    2yea, I beseech you, that I may not when present show courage with the confidence wherewith I count to be bold against some, who count of us as if we walked according to the flesh.

  • 2 Cor 4:2
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    2but we have renounced the hidden things of shame, not walking in craftiness, nor handling the word of God deceitfully; but by the manifestation of the truth commending ourselves to every man's conscience in the sight of God.

  • 2 Pet 3:1
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    1This is now, beloved, the second epistle that I write unto you; and in both of them I stir up your sincere mind by putting you in remembrance;

  • 1 Thess 1:5
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    5how that our gospel came not unto you in word only, but also in power, and in the Holy Spirit, and [in] much assurance; even as ye know what manner of men we showed ourselves toward you for your sake.

  • 2 Cor 8:24
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    24Show ye therefore unto them in the face of the churches the proof of your love, and of our glorying on your behalf.

  • 1 Thess 2:9-10
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    9For ye remember, brethren, our labor and travail: working night and day, that we might not burden any of you, we preached unto you the gospel of God.

    10Ye are witnesses, and God [also], how holily and righteously and unblameably we behaved ourselves toward you that believe:

  • 1 Thess 1:8-9
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    8For from you hath sounded forth the word of the Lord, not only in Macedonia and Achaia, but in every place your faith to God-ward is gone forth; so that we need not to speak anything.

    9For they themselves report concerning us what manner of entering in we had unto you; and how ye turned unto God from idols, to serve a living and true God,

  • 2 Cor 9:3
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    3But I have sent the brethren, that our glorying on your behalf may not be made void in this respect; that, even as I said, ye may be prepared:

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    8Wherefore, though I have all boldness in Christ to enjoin thee that which is befitting,

  • 1 Cor 9:2
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    2If to others I am not an apostle, yet at least I am to you; for the seal of mine apostleship are ye in the Lord.

  • Gal 1:10
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    10For am I now seeking the favor of men, or of God? or am I striving to please men? if I were still pleasing men, I should not be a servant of Christ.

  • Phil 3:17
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    17Brethren, be ye imitators together of me, and mark them that so walk even as ye have us for an ensample.

  • 1 Thess 3:6
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    6But when Timothy came even now unto us from you, and brought us glad tidings of your faith and love, and that ye have good remembrance of us always, longing to see us, even as we also [to see] you;

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    7For yourselves know how ye ought to imitate us: for we behaved not ourselves disorderly among you;

  • 2 Thess 2:1
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    1Now we beseech you, brethren, touching the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and our gathering together unto him;

  • 1 Thess 3:1
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    1Wherefore when we could no longer forbear, we thought it good to be left behind at Athens alone;