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2 Corinthians 3:1–2
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2 Corinthians 3:1
1DO we begin again to commend ourselves? or need we, as some others, epistles of commendation to you, or letters of commendation from you?
1¶ Doe wee begin againe to commend our selues? or need wee, as some others, Epistles of commendation to you, or letters of commendation from you?
2 Corinthians 3:2
2Ye are our epistle written in our hearts, known and read of all men:
2Ye are our Epistle written in our hearts, knowen and read of all men.
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DEFINED WORDS
2 Corinthians 3:1
To have an original or first existence; to take rise; to commence.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage (PCE)
Another time; once more; back to a former place or condition; or in return.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
To entrust to another's care; also to praise or recommend.
Meaning drawn from: Skeat 1893
The reflexive or emphatic pronoun referring to the speaker together with others.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828
Want: occasion for something; necessity; a state that requires supply or relief.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
Other persons or things; those distinct from the ones already named.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Skeat 1893 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
Written messages or letters sent to persons or assemblies; figuratively, lives made known and read like letters.
Meaning drawn from: Approved KJV word-family definition · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage (PCE)
APPROVED COMBINED MEANING
commendation
Praise, approval, recommendation, or a message of regard.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Written messages or epistles; also characters of writing.
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DEFINED WORDS
2 Corinthians 3:2
A life and testimony made known and read like a written letter.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
To write: to set down, record, or communicate in letters or writing.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription)
The bodily organ; more often in Scripture, the inward person—the mind, will, affections, conscience, or moral character—according to context.
Meaning drawn from: Approved KJV word-family definition · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage (PCE)
Recognized, understood, perceived, acknowledged, or made evident.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
To utter or pronounce written or printed words, letters or characters in the proper order; to repeat the names or utter the sounds customarily annexed to words, letters or characters.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage (PCE)
Wholly, entirely, or altogether; every one or the whole amount, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
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Open the full verse study12For we dare not make ourselves of the number, or compare ourselves with some that commend themselves: but they measuring themselves by themselves, and comparing themselves among themselves, are not wise.
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Open the full verse study11I am become a fool in glorying; ye have compelled me: for I ought to have been commended of you: for in nothing am I behind the very chiefest apostles, though I be nothing.
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Open the full verse study12For we commend not ourselves again unto you, but give you occasion to glory on our behalf, that ye may have somewhat to answer them which glory in appearance, and not in heart.
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Open the full verse study27And when he was disposed to pass into Achaia, the brethren wrote, exhorting the disciples to receive him: who, when he was come, helped them much which had believed through grace:
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Open the full verse study3And when I come, whomsoever ye shall approve by your letters, them will I send to bring your liberality unto Jerusalem.
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Open the full verse study33Even as I please all men in all things, not seeking mine own profit, but the profit of many, that they may be saved.
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Open the full verse study10According to the grace of God which is given unto me, as a wise masterbuilder, I have laid the foundation, and another buildeth thereon. But let every man take heed how he buildeth thereupon.
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Open the full verse study15For though ye have ten thousand instructors in Christ, yet have ye not many fathers: for in Christ Jesus I have begotten you through the gospel.
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Open the full verse study8For though I should boast somewhat more of our authority, which the Lord hath given us for edification, and not for your destruction, I should not be ashamed:
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Open the full verse study19Again, think ye that we excuse ourselves unto you? we speak before God in Christ: but we do all things, dearly beloved, for your edifying.
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Open the full verse study17For we are not as many, which corrupt the word of God: but as of sincerity, but as of God, in the sight of God speak we in Christ.
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Open the full verse study1AM I not an apostle? am I not free? have I not seen Jesus Christ our Lord? are not ye my work in the Lord?
2If I be not an apostle unto others, yet doubtless I am to you: for the seal of mine apostleship are ye in the Lord.
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Open the full verse study8For from you sounded out the word of the Lord not only in Macedonia and Achaia, but also in every place your faith to God-ward is spread abroad; so that we need not to speak any thing.
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Open the full verse study8First, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for you all, that your faith is spoken of throughout the whole world.
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Open the full verse study7Even as it is meet for me to think this of you all, because I have you in my heart; inasmuch as both in my bonds, and in the defence and confirmation of the gospel, ye all are partakers of my grace.
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Open the full verse study10According to the grace of God which is given unto me, as a wise masterbuilder, I have laid the foundation, and another buildeth thereon. But let every man take heed how he buildeth thereupon.
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Open the full verse study11Wherefore? because I love you not? God knoweth.
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Open the full verse study15And I will very gladly spend and be spent for you; though the more abundantly I love you, the less I be loved.
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Open the full verse study3I speak not this to condemn you: for I have said before, that ye are in our hearts to die and live with you.
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