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You Yourselves Are Proof To Everyone That God Is Working Through Us

Are we[a] beginning to commend ourselves again? Or we do not have-need of letters of recommendation[b] to you or from you, like some, do we? You are our letter— it having been inscribed in our hearts, it being known and being read by all people, you being made-known[c] that you are a letter from[d] Christ having been served by us, having been inscribed not with ink but with the Spirit of the living God, not in tablets made-of-stone but in tablets[e] which are hearts made-of-flesh.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Corinthians 3:1 Paul pauses to answer a false conclusion that could be drawn from 2:14-17.
  2. 2 Corinthians 3:1 That is, to prove we are authorized representatives of God.
  3. 2 Corinthians 3:3 That is, through the letter recorded on your hearts.
  4. 2 Corinthians 3:3 That is, from Christ to others; or, about Christ.
  5. 2 Corinthians 3:3 in tablets... flesh. Or, in tablets made-of-flesh— in hearts.

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