2 Corinthians 3:1

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

Do we begin again to recommend ourselves, except we need, as some, letters of recommendation unto you, or from you?

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  • Acts 18:27 : 27 and he being minded to go through into Achaia, the brethren wrote to the disciples, having exhorted them to receive him, who having come, did help them much who have believed through the grace,
  • 2 Cor 5:12 : 12 for not again ourselves do we recommend to you, but we are giving occasion to you of glorifying in our behalf, that ye may have `something' in reference to those glorifying in face and not in heart;
  • 2 Cor 12:11 : 11 I have become a fool -- boasting; ye -- ye did compel me; for I ought by you to have been commended, for in nothing was I behind the very chiefest apostles -- even if I am nothing.
  • 2 Cor 10:12 : 12 For we do not make bold to rank or to compare ourselves with certain of those commending themselves, but they, among themselves measuring themselves, and comparing themselves with themselves, are not wise,
  • 1 Cor 16:3 : 3 and whenever I may come, whomsoever ye may approve, through letters, these I will send to carry your favour to Jerusalem;
  • 2 Cor 2:17 : 17 for we are not as the many, adulterating the word of God, but as of sincerity -- but as of God; in the presence of God, in Christ we do speak.
  • 2 Cor 10:8 : 8 for even if also anything more abundantly I shall boast concerning our authority, that the Lord gave us for building up, and not for casting you down, I shall not be ashamed;
  • 1 Cor 3:10 : 10 According to the grace of God that was given to me, as a wise master-builder, a foundation I have laid, and another doth build on `it',
  • 1 Cor 4:15 : 15 for if a myriad of child-conductors ye may have in Christ, yet not many fathers; for in Christ Jesus, through the good news, I -- I did beget you;
  • 1 Cor 10:33 : 33 as I also in all things do please all, not seeking my own profit, but that of many -- that they may be saved.
  • 2 Cor 12:19 : 19 Again, think ye that to you we are making defence? before God in Christ do we speak; and the all things, beloved, `are' for your up-building,

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  • 2 Cor 3:2-5
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    2our letter ye are, having been written in our hearts, known and read by all men,

    3manifested that ye are a letter of Christ ministered by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God, not in the tablets of stone, but in fleshy tablets of the heart,

    4and such trust we have through the Christ toward God,

    5not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think anything, as of ourselves, but our sufficiency `is' of God,

  • 2 Cor 5:12-13
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    12for not again ourselves do we recommend to you, but we are giving occasion to you of glorifying in our behalf, that ye may have `something' in reference to those glorifying in face and not in heart;

    13for whether we were beside ourselves, `it was' to God; whether we be of sound mind -- `it is' to you,

  • 1 Thess 2:4-6
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    4but as we have been approved by God to be entrusted with the good news, so we speak, not as pleasing men, but God, who is proving our hearts,

    5for at no time did we come with speech of flattery, (as ye have known,) nor in a pretext for covetousness, (God `is' witness!)

    6nor seeking of men glory, neither from you nor from others, being able to be burdensome, as Christ's apostles.

  • 2 Cor 10:11-13
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    11This one -- let him reckon thus: that such as we are in word, through letters, being absent, such also, being present, `we are' in deed.

    12For we do not make bold to rank or to compare ourselves with certain of those commending themselves, but they, among themselves measuring themselves, and comparing themselves with themselves, are not wise,

    13and we in regard to the unmeasured things will not boast ourselves, but after the measure of the line that the God of measure did appoint to us -- to reach even unto you;

  • 2 Cor 1:12-14
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    12For our glorying is this: the testimony of our conscience, that in simplicity and sincerity of God, not in fleshly wisdom, but in the grace of God, we did conduct ourselves in the world, and more abundantly toward you;

    13for no other things do we write to you, but what ye either do read or also acknowledge, and I hope that also unto the end ye shall acknowledge,

    14according as also ye did acknowledge us in part, that your glory we are, even as also ye `are' ours, in the day of the Lord Jesus;

  • 2 Thess 3:9
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    9not because we have not authority, but that ourselves a pattern we might give to you, to imitate us;

  • 2 Cor 12:19
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    19Again, think ye that to you we are making defence? before God in Christ do we speak; and the all things, beloved, `are' for your up-building,

  • 2 Cor 10:18
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    18for not he who is commending himself is approved, but he whom the Lord doth commend.

  • 2 Cor 10:7-9
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    7The things in presence do ye see? if any one hath trusted in himself to be Christ's, this let him reckon again from himself, that according as he is Christ's, so also we `are' Christ's;

    8for even if also anything more abundantly I shall boast concerning our authority, that the Lord gave us for building up, and not for casting you down, I shall not be ashamed;

    9that I may not seem as if I would terrify you through the letters,

  • 1 Thess 2:1-2
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    1For yourselves have known, brethren, our entrance in unto you, that it did not become vain,

    2but having both suffered before, and having been injuriously treated (as ye have known) in Philippi, we were bold in our God to speak unto you the good news of God in much conflict,

  • 2 Cor 4:5
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    5for not ourselves do we preach, but Christ Jesus -- Lord, and ourselves your servants because of Jesus;

  • 2 Cor 7:2-3
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    2receive us; no one did we wrong; no one did we waste; no one did we defraud;

    3not to condemn you do I say `it', for I have said before that in our hearts ye are to die with and to live with;

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    16in the `places' beyond you to proclaim good news, not in another's line in regard to the things made ready, to boast;

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    1For, indeed, concerning the ministration that `is' for the saints, it is superfluous for me to write to you,

  • 1 Thess 4:1
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    1As to the rest, then, brethren, we request you, and call upon you in the Lord Jesus, as ye did receive from us how it behoveth you to walk and to please God, that ye may abound the more,

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    9for what thanks are we able to recompense to God for you, for all the joy with which we do joy because of you in the presence of our God?

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    6so that we exhorted Titus, that, according as he did begin before, so also he may finish to you also this favour,

  • 1 Cor 4:6
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    6And these things, brethren, I did transfer to myself and to Apollos because of you, that in us ye may learn not to think above that which hath been written, that ye may not be puffed up one for one against the other,

  • 2 Cor 10:2
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    2and I beseech `you', that, being present, I may not have courage, with the confidence with which I reckon to be bold against certain reckoning us as walking according to the flesh;

  • 2 Cor 4:2
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    2but did renounce for ourselves the hidden things of shame, not walking in craftiness, nor deceitfully using the word of God, but by the manifestation of the truth recommending ourselves unto every conscience of men, before God;

  • 2 Pet 3:1
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    1This, now, beloved, a second letter to you I write, in both which I stir up your pure mind in reminding `you',

  • 1 Thess 1:5
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    5because our good news did not come to you in word only, but also in power, and in the Holy Spirit, and in much assurance, even as ye have known of what sort we became among you because of you,

  • 2 Cor 8:24
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    24the shewing therefore of your love, and of our boasting on your behalf, to them shew ye, even in the face of the assemblies.

  • 1 Thess 2:9-10
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    9for ye remember, brethren, our labour and travail, for, night and day working not to be a burden upon any of you, we did preach to you the good news of God;

    10ye `are' witnesses -- God also -- how kindly and righteously, and blamelessly to you who believe we became,

  • 1 Thess 1:8-9
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    8for from you hath sounded forth the word of the Lord, not only in Macedonia and Achaia, but also in every place your faith toward God did go forth, so that we have no need to say anything,

    9for they themselves concerning us do declare what entrance we had unto you, and how ye did turn unto God from the idols, to serve a living and true God,

  • 2 Cor 9:3
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    3and I sent the brethren, that our boasting on your behalf may not be made vain in this respect; that, according as I said, ye may be ready,

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    8Wherefore, having in Christ much boldness to command thee that which is fit --

  • 1 Cor 9:2
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    2if to others I am not an apostle -- yet doubtless to you I am; for the seal of my apostleship are ye in the Lord.

  • Gal 1:10
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    10for now men do I persuade, or God? or do I seek to please men? for if yet men I did please -- Christ's servant I should not be.

  • Phil 3:17
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    17become followers together of me, brethren, and observe those thus walking, according as ye have us -- a pattern;

  • 1 Thess 3:6
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    6And now Timotheus having come unto us from you, and having declared good news to us of your faith and love, and that ye have a good remembrance of us always, desiring much to see us, as we also `to see' you,

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    7for yourselves have known how it behoveth `you' to imitate us, because we did not act disorderly among you;

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    1And we ask you, brethren, in regard to the presence of our Lord Jesus Christ, and of our gathering together unto him,

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    1Wherefore no longer forbearing, we thought good to be left in Athens alone,