First, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for all of you, because your faith is proclaimed in all the world.
2 Corinthians 3:2 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI) You yourselves are our letter of recommendation, written on your hearts, to be known and read by all men; More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Ye are our epistle written in our hearts, known and read of all men: Amplified Bible - Classic Edition [No] you yourselves are our letter of recommendation (our credentials), written in your hearts, to be known (perceived, recognized) and read by everybody. American Standard Version (1901) Ye are our epistle, written in our hearts, known and read of all men; Common English Bible You are our letter, written on our hearts, known and read by everyone. Catholic Public Domain Version You are our Epistle, written in our hearts, which is known and read by all men. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version You are our epistle, written in our hearts, which is known and read by all men: |
First, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for all of you, because your faith is proclaimed in all the world.
According to the grace of God given to me, like a skilled master builder I laid a foundation, and another man is building upon it. Let each man take care how he builds upon it.
I will most gladly spend and be spent for your souls. If I love you the more, am I to be loved the less?
Are we beginning to commend ourselves again? Or do we need, as some do, letters of recommendation to you, or from you?
I do not say this to condemn you, for I said before that you are in our hearts, to die together and to live together.
It is right for me to feel thus about you all, because I hold you in my heart, for you are all partakers with me of grace, both in my imprisonment and in the defense and confirmation of the gospel.
For not only has the word of the Lord sounded forth from you in Macedonia and Achaia, but your faith in God has gone forth everywhere, so that we need not say anything.