2 Corinthians 3:1

Bible in Basic English (1941)

Do we seem to be again attempting to put ourselves in the right? or have we need, as some have, of letters of approval to you or from you?

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  • Acts 18:27 : 27 And when he had a desire to go over into Achaia, the brothers gave him help, and sent letters to the disciples requesting them to take him in among them: and when he had come, he gave much help to those who had faith through grace:
  • 2 Cor 5:12 : 12 We are not again requesting your approval, but we are giving you the chance of taking pride in us, so that you may be able to give an answer to those whose glory is in seeming, and not in the heart.
  • 2 Cor 12:11 : 11 I have been forced by you to become foolish, though it was right for my praise to have come from you: for in no way was I less than the chief of the Apostles, though I am nothing.
  • 2 Cor 10:12 : 12 For we will not make comparison of ourselves with some of those who say good things about themselves: but these, measuring themselves by themselves, and making comparison of themselves with themselves, are not wise.
  • 1 Cor 16:3 : 3 And when I come, I will send the men of your selection with letters to take the money you have got together to Jerusalem.
  • 2 Cor 2:17 : 17 For we are not like the great number who make use of the word of God for profit: but our words are true, as from God, being said as before God in Christ.
  • 2 Cor 10:8 : 8 For though I might take pride in our authority (which the Lord gave for building you up, and not for your destruction), it will not be a cause of shame to me:
  • 1 Cor 3:10 : 10 In the measure of the grace given to me, I, as a wise master-builder, have put the base in position, and another goes on building on it. But let every man take care what he puts on it.
  • 1 Cor 4:15 : 15 For even if you had ten thousand teachers in Christ, you have not more than one father: for in Christ Jesus I have given birth to you through the good news.
  • 1 Cor 10:33 : 33 Even as I give way to all men in all things, not looking for profit for myself, but for the good of others, that they may get salvation.
  • 2 Cor 12:19 : 19 It may seem to you that all this time we have been attempting to put ourselves in the right; but we are saying these things before God in Christ. For all things, dear brothers, are for your profit.

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    2 You yourselves are our letter, whose writing is in our heart, open for every man's reading and knowledge;

    3 For you are clearly a letter of Christ, the fruit of our work, recorded not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; not in stone, but in hearts of flesh.

    4 And this is the certain faith which we have in God through Christ:

    5 Not as if we were able by ourselves to do anything for which we might take the credit; but our power comes from God;

  • 2 Cor 5:12-13
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    12 We are not again requesting your approval, but we are giving you the chance of taking pride in us, so that you may be able to give an answer to those whose glory is in seeming, and not in the heart.

    13 For if we are foolish, it is to God; or if we are serious, it is for you.

  • 1 Thess 2:4-6
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    4 But even as the good news was given to us by the approval of God, so we give it out; not as pleasing men, but God by whom our hearts are tested.

    5 For it is common knowledge among you that we never made use of smooth-sounding false words, and God is witness that at no time were we secretly desiring profit for ourselves,

    6 Or looking for glory from men, from you or from others, when we might have made ourselves a care to you as Apostles of Christ.

  • 2 Cor 10:11-13
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    11 Let those who say this keep in mind that, what we are in word by letters when we are away, so will we be in act when we are present.

    12 For we will not make comparison of ourselves with some of those who say good things about themselves: but these, measuring themselves by themselves, and making comparison of themselves with themselves, are not wise.

    13 We will not give glory to ourselves in over-great measure, but after the measure of the rule which God has given us, a measure which comes even to you.

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    12 For our glory is in this, in the knowledge which we have that our way of life in the world, and most of all in relation to you, has been holy and true in the eyes of God; not in the wisdom of the flesh, but in the grace of God.

    13 For in our letters we say no other things to you, but those which you are reading, and to which you give agreement, and, it is my hope, will go on doing so to the end:

    14 Even as you have been ready, in part, to say that we are your glory, in the same way that you are ours, in the day of the Lord Jesus.

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    9 Not because we have not the right, but to make ourselves an example to you, so that you might do the same.

  • 2 Cor 12:19
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    19 It may seem to you that all this time we have been attempting to put ourselves in the right; but we are saying these things before God in Christ. For all things, dear brothers, are for your profit.

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    18 For the Lord's approval of a man is not dependent on his opinion of himself, but on the Lord's opinion of him.

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    7 Give attention to the things which are before you. If any man seems to himself to be Christ's, let him keep in mind that we are as much Christ's as he is.

    8 For though I might take pride in our authority (which the Lord gave for building you up, and not for your destruction), it will not be a cause of shame to me:

    9 That I may not seem to have the desire of causing you fear by my letters.

  • 1 Thess 2:1-2
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    1 For you yourselves, brothers, are conscious that our coming among you was not without effect:

    2 But after we had first undergone much pain and been cruelly attacked as you saw, at Philippi, by the help of God we gave you the good news without fear, though everything was against us.

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    5 For our preaching is not about ourselves, but about Christ Jesus as Lord, and ourselves as your servants through Jesus.

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    2 Let your hearts be open to us: we have done no man wrong, no man has been damaged by us, we have made no profit out of any man,

    3 It is not with the purpose of judging you that I say this: for I have said before that you are in our hearts for life and death together.

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    16 So that we may be able to go on and take the good news to countries still farther away than you are, and not take credit for another man's work in making things ready to our hand.

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    1 But there is no need for me to say anything in my letter about the giving to the saints:

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    1 And last of all, the prayer which we make to you from our heart and in the name of the Lord Jesus, is this: that as we made clear to you what sort of behaviour is pleasing to God, as in fact you are doing now, so you will go on in these ways, but more and more.

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    9 For how great is the praise which we give to God for you, and how great the joy with which we are glad because of you before our God;

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    6 So that we made a request to Titus that, as he had made a start before, so he might make this grace complete in you.

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    6 My brothers, it is because of you that I have taken Apollos and myself as examples of these things, so that in us you might see that it is not wise to go farther than what is in the holy Writings, so that no one of you may be lifted up against his brother.

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    2 Yes, I make my request to you, so that when I am with you I may not have to make use of the authority which may be needed against some to whom we seem to be walking after the flesh.

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    2 And we have given up the secret things of shame, not walking in false ways, and not making use of the word of God with deceit; but by the revelation of what is true, as before God, we have the approval of every man's sense of right and wrong.

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    1 My loved ones, this is now my second letter to you, and in this as in the first, I am attempting to keep your true minds awake;

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    5 Because our good news came to you, not in word only, but in power, and in the Holy Spirit, so that you were completely certain of it; even as you saw what our behaviour to you was like from our love to you.

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    24 Make clear then to them, as representatives of the churches, the quality of your love, and that the things which we have said about you are true.

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    9 For you have the memory, my brothers, of our trouble and care; how, working night and day, so that we might not be a trouble to any of you, we gave you the good news of God.

    10 You are witnesses, with God, how holy and upright and free from all evil was our way of life among you who have faith;

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    8 For not only was the word of the Lord sounding out from you in Macedonia and Achaia, but in every place your faith in God is made clear; so that we have no need to say anything.

    9 For they themselves give the news of how we came among you; and how you were turned from images to God, to the worship of a true and living God,

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    3 But I have sent the brothers, so that the good things we said about you may be seen to be true, and that, as I said, you may be ready:

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    8 And so, though I might, in the name of Christ, give you orders to do what is right,

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    2 If to others I am not an Apostle, at least I am one to you: for the fact that you are Christians is the sign that I am an Apostle.

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    10 Am I now using arguments to men, or God? or is it my desire to give men pleasure? if I was still pleasing men, I would not be a servant of Christ.

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    17 Brothers, take me as your example, and take note of those who are walking after the example we have given.

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    6 But now that Timothy has come to us from you, and has given us good news of your faith and love, and that you have happy memories of us, desiring greatly to see us, even as we do to see you;

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    7 For you yourselves are used to taking us as your example, because our life among you was ruled by order,

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