2 Corinthians 3:2

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You yourselves are our letter, written on our hearts, known and read by everyone,

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Referenced Verses

  • 1 Cor 9:1-2 : 1 The Rights of an Apostle Am I not free? Am I not an apostle? Have I not seen Jesus our Lord? Are you not my work in the Lord? 2 If I am not an apostle to others, at least I am to you, for you are the confirming sign of my apostleship in the Lord.
  • Rom 1:8 : 8 Paul’s Desire to Visit Rome First of all, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for all of you, because your faith is proclaimed throughout the whole world.
  • 1 Thess 1:8 : 8 For from you the message of the Lord has echoed forth not just in Macedonia and Achaia, but in every place reports of your faith in God have spread, so that we do not need to say anything.
  • 1 Cor 3:10 : 10 According to the grace of God given to me, like a skilled master-builder I laid a foundation, but someone else builds on it. And each one must be careful how he builds.
  • 2 Cor 7:3 : 3 I do not say this to condemn you, for I told you before that you are in our hearts so that we die together and live together with you.
  • 2 Cor 11:11 : 11 Why? Because I do not love you? God knows I do!
  • 2 Cor 12:15 : 15 Now I will most gladly spend and be spent for your lives! If I love you more, am I to be loved less?
  • Phil 1:7 : 7 For it is right for me to think this about all of you, because I have you in my heart, since both in my imprisonment and in the defense and confirmation of the gospel all of you became partners in God’s grace together with me.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 2 Cor 3:3-4
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    3revealing that you are a letter of Christ, delivered by us, written not with ink but by the Spirit of the living God, not on stone tablets but on tablets of human hearts.

    4Now we have such confidence in God through Christ.

  • 2 Cor 3:1
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    1A Living Letter Are we beginning to commend ourselves again? We don’t need letters of recommendation to you or from you as some other people do, do we?

  • 2 Cor 7:3
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    3I do not say this to condemn you, for I told you before that you are in our hearts so that we die together and live together with you.

  • 2 Cor 1:12-14
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    12Paul Defends His Changed Plans For our reason for confidence is this: the testimony of our conscience, that with pure motives and sincerity which are from God– not by human wisdom but by the grace of God– we conducted ourselves in the world, and all the more toward you.

    13For we do not write you anything other than what you can read and also understand. But I hope that you will understand completely

    14just as also you have partly understood us, that we are your source of pride just as you also are ours in the day of the Lord Jesus.

  • 1 Thess 2:20
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    20For you are our glory and joy!

  • 2 Cor 5:11-12
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    11The Message of Reconciliation Therefore, because we know the fear of the Lord, we try to persuade people, but we are well known to God, and I hope we are well known to your consciences too.

    12We are not trying to commend ourselves to you again, but are giving you an opportunity to be proud of us, so that you may be able to answer those who take pride in outward appearance and not in what is in the heart.

  • 1 Cor 3:16-17
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    16Do you not know that you are God’s temple and that God’s Spirit lives in you?

    17If someone destroys God’s temple, God will destroy him. For God’s temple is holy, which is what you are.

  • 1 Thess 1:5-8
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    5in that our gospel did not come to you merely in words, but in power and in the Holy Spirit and with deep conviction(surely you recall the character we displayed when we came among you to help you).

    6And you became imitators of us and of the Lord, when you received the message with joy that comes from the Holy Spirit, despite great affliction.

    7As a result you became an example to all the believers in Macedonia and in Achaia.

    8For from you the message of the Lord has echoed forth not just in Macedonia and Achaia, but in every place reports of your faith in God have spread, so that we do not need to say anything.

  • 1 Thess 2:4
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    4but just as we have been approved by God to be entrusted with the gospel, so we declare it, not to please people but God, who examines our hearts.

  • 2 Cor 3:6
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    6who made us adequate to be servants of a new covenant not based on the letter but on the Spirit, for the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.

  • 1 Thess 2:10
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    10You are witnesses, and so is God, as to how holy and righteous and blameless our conduct was toward you who believe.

  • 1 Cor 3:23
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    23and you belong to Christ, and Christ belongs to God.

  • Eph 3:3-4
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    3that by revelation the mystery was made known to me, as I wrote before briefly.

    4When reading this, you will be able to understand my insight into the mystery of Christ

  • 1 Cor 9:2
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    2If I am not an apostle to others, at least I am to you, for you are the confirming sign of my apostleship in the Lord.

  • Col 1:7-8
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    7You learned the gospel from Epaphras, our dear fellow slave– a faithful minister of Christ on our behalf–

    8who also told us of your love in the Spirit.

  • 1 Thess 2:1
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    1Paul’s Ministry in Thessalonica For you yourselves know, brothers and sisters, about our coming to you– it has not proven to be purposeless.

  • 2 Cor 8:24
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    24Therefore show them openly before the churches the proof of your love and of our pride in you.

  • 2 Thess 1:12
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    12that the name of our Lord Jesus may be glorified in you, and you in him, according to the grace of our God and the Lord Jesus Christ.

  • 2 Cor 2:17
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    17For we are not like so many others, hucksters who peddle the word of God for profit, but we are speaking in Christ before God as persons of sincerity, as persons sent from God.

  • 2 Cor 13:3
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    3since you are demanding proof that Christ is speaking through me. He is not weak toward you but is powerful among you.

  • 1 Thess 2:13
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    13And so we too constantly thank God that when you received God’s message that you heard from us, you accepted it not as a human message, but as it truly is, God’s message, which is at work among you who believe.

  • 2 Pet 3:1-2
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    1The False Teachers’ Denial of the Lord’s Return Dear friends, this is already the second letter I have written you, in which I am trying to stir up your pure mind by way of reminder:

    2I want you to recall both the predictions foretold by the holy prophets and the commandment of the Lord and Savior through your apostles.

  • 1 Thess 2:8
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    8with such affection for you we were happy to share with you not only the gospel of God but also our own lives, because you had become dear to us.

  • 2 Cor 1:22
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    22who also sealed us and gave us the Spirit in our hearts as a down payment.

  • Phil 3:17
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    17Be imitators of me, brothers and sisters, and watch carefully those who are living this way, just as you have us as an example.

  • 3 John 1:12
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    12Worthy Demetrius Demetrius has been testified to by all, even by the truth itself. We also testify to him, and you know that our testimony is true.

  • 2 Cor 4:6
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    6For God, who said“Let light shine out of darkness,” is the one who shined in our hearts to give us the light of the glorious knowledge of God in the face of Christ.

  • 1 Cor 1:6
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    6just as the testimony about Christ has been confirmed among you–

  • 2 Cor 12:19
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    19Have you been thinking all this time that we have been defending ourselves to you? We are speaking in Christ before God, and everything we do, dear friends, is to build you up.

  • 2 Thess 2:15
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    15Therefore, brothers and sisters, stand firm and hold on to the traditions that we taught you, whether by speech or by letter.

  • 2 Thess 3:17
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    17I, Paul, write this greeting with my own hand, which is how I write in every letter.

  • 2 Cor 3:18
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    18And we all, with unveiled faces reflecting the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from one degree of glory to another, which is from the Lord, who is the Spirit.

  • Phlm 1:7
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    7I have had great joy and encouragement because of your love, for the hearts of the saints have been refreshed through you, brother.

  • 2 Cor 4:2
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    2But we have rejected shameful hidden deeds, not behaving with deceptiveness or distorting the word of God, but by open proclamation of the truth we commend ourselves to everyone’s conscience before God.

  • 2 Cor 10:7
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    7You are looking at outward appearances. If anyone is confident that he belongs to Christ, he should reflect on this again: Just as he himself belongs to Christ, so too do we.

  • 1 Cor 3:9
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    9We are coworkers belonging to God. You are God’s field, God’s building.

  • 2 Thess 1:4
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    4As a result we ourselves boast about you in the churches of God for your perseverance and faith in all the persecutions and afflictions you are enduring.

  • Rom 2:15
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    15They show that the work of the law is written in their hearts, as their conscience bears witness and their conflicting thoughts accuse or else defend them,

  • 1 Thess 4:2
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    2For you know what commands we gave you through the Lord Jesus.