The Purpose of This Book

30 (A)Now Jesus did many other signs (B)in the presence of the disciples, which are not written in this book; 31 (C)but these are written so that you may (D)believe that Jesus is the Christ, (E)the Son of God, and that by believing (F)you may have life (G)in his name.

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25 Now (A)there are also many other things that Jesus did. Were every one of them to be written, I suppose that (B)the world itself could not contain the books that would be written.

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(A)You yourselves are our letter of recommendation, written on our[a] hearts, to be known and read by all. And you show that you are a letter from Christ delivered by us, written not with ink but with the Spirit of (B)the living God, not on (C)tablets of stone but on (D)tablets of (E)human hearts.[b]

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Corinthians 3:2 Some manuscripts your
  2. 2 Corinthians 3:3 Greek fleshly hearts

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