Do we begin again to commend ourselves? or need we, as some others, epistles of commendation to you, or letters of commendation from you?
begin.
2 Corinthians 2:17 For we are not as many, which corrupt the word of God: but as of …
2 Corinthians 5:12 For we commend not ourselves again to you, but give you occasion …
2 Corinthians 10:8,12 For though I should boast somewhat more of our authority, which the …
2 Corinthians 12:11,19 I am become a fool in glorying; you have compelled me: for I ought …
1 Corinthians 3:10 According to the grace of God which is given to me, as a wise master …
1 Corinthians 4:15 For though you have ten thousand instructors in Christ, yet have …
1 Corinthians 10:33 Even as I please all men in all things, not seeking my own profit, …
epistles.
Acts 18:27 And when he was disposed to pass into Achaia, the brothers wrote, …
1 Corinthians 16:3 And when I come, whomsoever you shall approve by your letters, them …
Ye are our epistle written in our hearts, known and read of all men:
Forasmuch as ye are manifestly declared to be the epistle of Christ ministered by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; not in tables of stone, but in fleshy tables of the heart.
the epistle.
Exodus 31:18 And he gave to Moses, when he had made an end of communing with him …
Revelation 2:1,8,12,18 To the angel of the church of Ephesus write; These things said he …
Revelation 3:1,7,14,22 And to the angel of the church in Sardis write; These things said …
ministered.
1 Corinthians 8:5-10 For though there be that are called gods, whether in heaven or in …
the living.
2 Corinthians 6:16 And what agreement has the temple of God with idols? for you are …
Joshua 3:10 And Joshua said, Hereby you shall know that the living God is among you…
1 Samuel 17:26 And David spoke to the men that stood by him, saying, What shall …
Psalm 42:2 My soul thirsts for God, for the living God: when shall I come and …
Psalm 84:2 My soul longs, yes, even faints for the courts of the LORD: my heart …
Jeremiah 10:10 But the LORD is the true God, he is the living God, and an everlasting …
Daniel 6:26 I make a decree, That in every dominion of my kingdom men tremble …
Matthew 16:16 And Simon Peter answered and said, You are the Christ, the Son of …
1 Thessalonians 1:9 For they themselves show of us what manner of entering in we had to you…
Hebrews 9:14 How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal …
not.
Exodus 24:12 And the LORD said to Moses, Come up to me into the mount, and be …
Exodus 34:1 And the LORD said to Moses, Hew you two tables of stone like to the first…
but.
Psalm 40:8 I delight to do your will, O my God: yes, your law is within my heart.
Jeremiah 31:33 But this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of …
Ezekiel 11:19 And I will give them one heart, and I will put a new spirit within …
Ezekiel 36:25-27 Then will I sprinkle clean water on you, and you shall be clean: …
Hebrews 8:10 For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel …
Hebrews 10:16 This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days, …
And such trust have we through Christ to God-ward:
Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think any thing as of ourselves; but our sufficiency is of God;
that.
2 Corinthians 2:16 To the one we are the smell of death to death; and to the other the …
2 Corinthians 4:7 But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellency …
Exodus 4:10 And Moses said to the LORD, O my LORD, I am not eloquent, neither …
John 15:5 I am the vine, you are the branches: He that stays in me, and I in …
but.
2 Corinthians 12:9 And he said to me, My grace is sufficient for you: for my strength …
Exodus 4:11-16 And the LORD said to him, Who has made man's mouth? or who makes …
Jeremiah 1:6-10 Then said I, Ah, Lord GOD! behold, I cannot speak: for I am a child…
Matthew 10:19,20 But when they deliver you up, take no thought how or what you shall speak…
Luke 21:15 For I will give you a mouth and wisdom, which all your adversaries …
Luke 24:49 And, behold, I send the promise of my Father on you: but tarry you …
1 Corinthians 3:6,10 I have planted, Apollos watered; but God gave the increase…
1 Corinthians 15:10 But by the grace of God I am what I am: and his grace which was bestowed …
Philippians 2:13 For it is God which works in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure.
Philippians 4:13 I can do all things through Christ which strengthens me.
James 1:17 Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and comes down …
Who also hath made us able ministers of the new testament; not of the letter, but of the spirit: for the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life.
hath.
2 Corinthians 5:18-20 And all things are of God, who has reconciled us to himself by Jesus …
Matthew 13:52 Then said he to them, Therefore every scribe which is instructed …
Romans 1:5 By whom we have received grace and apostleship, for obedience to …
1 Corinthians 3:5,10 Who then is Paul, and who is Apollos, but ministers by whom you believed, …
1 Corinthians 12:28 And God has set some in the church, first apostles, secondarily prophets, …
Ephesians 3:7 Whereof I was made a minister, according to the gift of the grace …
Ephesians 4:11,12 And he gave some, apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; …
Colossians 1:25-29 Whereof I am made a minister, according to the dispensation of God …
1 Timothy 1:11,12 According to the glorious gospel of the blessed God, which was committed …
1 Timothy 4:6 If you put the brothers in remembrance of these things, you shall …
2 Timothy 1:11 Whereunto I am appointed a preacher, and an apostle, and a teacher …
the new.
2 Corinthians 3:14 But their minds were blinded: for until this day remains the same …
Jeremiah 31:31 Behold, the days come, said the LORD, that I will make a new covenant …
Matthew 26:28 For this is my blood of the new testament, which is shed for many …
Mark 14:24 And he said to them, This is my blood of the new testament, which …
Luke 22:20 Likewise also the cup after supper, saying, This cup is the new testament …
1 Corinthians 11:25 After the same manner also he took the cup, when he had supped, saying, …
Hebrews 7:22 By so much was Jesus made a surety of a better testament.
Hebrews 8:6-10 But now has he obtained a more excellent ministry, by how much also …
Hebrews 9:15-20 And for this cause he is the mediator of the new testament, that …
Hebrews 12:24 And to Jesus the mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of …
Hebrews 13:20 Now the God of peace, that brought again from the dead our Lord Jesus, …
not.
Romans 2:27-29 And shall not uncircumcision which is by nature, if it fulfill the …
Romans 7:6 But now we are delivered from the law, that being dead wherein we …
for.
2 Corinthians 3:7,9 But if the ministration of death, written and engraved in stones, …
Deuteronomy 27:26 Cursed be he that confirms not all the words of this law to do them. …
Romans 3:20 Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified …
Romans 4:15 Because the law works wrath: for where no law is, there is no transgression.
Romans 7:9-11 For I was alive without the law once: but when the commandment came, …
Galatians 3:10-12,21 For as many as are of the works of the law are under the curse: for …
but the.
John 6:63 It is the spirit that vivifies; the flesh profits nothing: the words …
Romans 8:2 For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has made me free …
1 John 1:1 That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we …
giveth life. or, quickeneth.
John 5:21 For as the Father raises up the dead, and vivifies them; even so …
Romans 4:17 (As it is written, I have made you a father of many nations,) before …
1 Corinthians 15:45 And so it is written, The first man Adam was made a living soul; …
Ephesians 2:1,5 And you has he quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins…
1 Peter 3:18 For Christ also has once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, …
But if the ministration of death, written and engraven in stones, was glorious, so that the children of Israel could not stedfastly behold the face of Moses for the glory of his countenance; which glory was to be done away:
the ministration. See on ver.
2 Corinthians 3:6,9 Who also has made us able ministers of the new testament; not of …
Romans 7:10 And the commandment, which was ordained to life, I found to be to death.
written.
2 Corinthians 3:3 For as much as you are manifestly declared to be the letter of Christ …
Exodus 24:12 And the LORD said to Moses, Come up to me into the mount, and be …
Exodus 31:18 And he gave to Moses, when he had made an end of communing with him …
Exodus 32:15,16,19 And Moses turned, and went down from the mount, and the two tables …
Exodus 34:1,28 And the LORD said to Moses, Hew you two tables of stone like to the first…
Deuteronomy 4:13 And he declared to you his covenant, which he commanded you to perform, …
Deuteronomy 5:22 These words the LORD spoke to all your assembly in the mount out …
Deuteronomy 9:9-11,15 When I was gone up into the mount to receive the tables of stone, …
Deuteronomy 10:1-4 At that time the LORD said to me, Hew you two tables of stone like …
Hebrews 9:4 Which had the golden censer, and the ark of the covenant overlaid …
was.
Deuteronomy 4:8 And what nation is there so great, that has statutes and judgments …
Nehemiah 9:13 You came down also on mount Sinai, and spoke with them from heaven, …
Psalm 19:7,8 The law of the LORD is perfect, converting the soul: the testimony …
Psalm 119:97,127,128,174 O how I love your law! it is my meditation all the day…
Romans 7:12-14,22 Why the law is holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good…
Genesis 3:21 To Adam also and to his wife did the LORD God make coats of skins, …
that.
Exodus 34:29-35 And it came to pass, when Moses came down from mount Sinai with the …
Luke 9:29-31 And as he prayed, the fashion of his countenance was altered, and …
Acts 6:15 And all that sat in the council, looking steadfastly on him, saw …
which.
2 Corinthians 3:10,11,14 For even that which was made glorious had no glory in this respect, …
Romans 10:4 For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to every one that believes.
1 Corinthians 13:10 But when that which is perfect is come, then that which is in part …
How shall not the ministration of the spirit be rather glorious?
the ministration.
2 Corinthians 3:6,17 Who also has made us able ministers of the new testament; not of …
2 Corinthians 11:4 For if he that comes preaches another Jesus, whom we have not preached, …
Isaiah 11:2 And the spirit of the LORD shall rest on him, the spirit of wisdom …
Isaiah 44:3 For I will pour water on him that is thirsty, and floods on the dry …
Isaiah 59:21 As for me, this is my covenant with them, said the LORD; My spirit …
Joel 2:28,29 And it shall come to pass afterward, that I will pour out my spirit …
John 1:17 For the law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ.
John 7:39 (But this spoke he of the Spirit, which they that believe on him …
Acts 2:17,18 And it shall come to pass in the last days, said God, I will pour …
Acts 2:32,33 This Jesus has God raised up, whereof we all are witnesses…
Romans 8:9-16 But you are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the …
1 Corinthians 3:16 Know you not that you are the temple of God, and that the Spirit …
1 Corinthians 12:4-11 Now there are diversities of gifts, but the same Spirit…
Galatians 3:2-5,14 This only would I learn of you, Received you the Spirit by the works …
Galatians 5:5,22,23 For we through the Spirit wait for the hope of righteousness by faith…
Ephesians 2:18 For through him we both have access by one Spirit to the Father.
2 Thessalonians 2:13 But we are bound to give thanks always to God for you, brothers beloved …
1 Peter 1:2 Elect according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, through sanctification …
Jude 1:19,20 These be they who separate themselves, sensual, having not the Spirit…
For if the ministration of condemnation be glory, much more doth the ministration of righteousness exceed in glory.
the ministration of condemnation. See on ver.
2 Corinthians 3:6,7 Who also has made us able ministers of the new testament; not of …
Exodus 19:12-19 And you shall set bounds to the people round about, saying, Take …
Exodus 20:18,19 And all the people saw the thunder, and the lightning, and the noise …
Romans 1:18 For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness …
Romans 8:3,4 For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, …
Galatians 3:10 For as many as are of the works of the law are under the curse: for …
Hebrews 12:18-21 For you are not come to the mount that might be touched, and that …
the ministration of righteousness.
2 Corinthians 5:21 For he has made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might …
Isaiah 46:13 I bring near my righteousness; it shall not be far off, and my salvation …
Jeremiah 23:6 In his days Judah shall be saved, and Israel shall dwell safely: …
Romans 1:17 For therein is the righteousness of God revealed from faith to faith: …
Romans 3:21,22 But now the righteousness of God without the law is manifested, being …
Romans 4:11 And he received the sign of circumcision, a seal of the righteousness …
Romans 5:15-21 But not as the offense, so also is the free gift. For if through …
Romans 10:3-10 For they being ignorant of God's righteousness, and going about to …
1 Corinthians 1:30 But of him are you in Christ Jesus, who of God is made to us wisdom, …
Galatians 5:4,5 Christ is become of no effect to you, whoever of you are justified …
Philippians 3:9 And be found in him, not having my own righteousness, which is of …
2 Peter 1:1 Simon Peter, a servant and an apostle of Jesus Christ…
exceed.
2 Corinthians 3:10,11 For even that which was made glorious had no glory in this respect, …
1 Corinthians 15:41 There is one glory of the sun, and another glory of the moon, and …
Hebrews 3:5,6 And Moses truly was faithful in all his house, as a servant, for …
For even that which was made glorious had no glory in this respect, by reason of the glory that excelleth.
had.
Job 25:5 Behold even to the moon, and it shines not; yes, the stars are not …
Isaiah 24:23 Then the moon shall be confounded, and the sun ashamed, when the …
Haggai 2:3,7-9 Who is left among you that saw this house in her first glory? and …
Acts 26:13 At midday, O king, I saw in the way a light from heaven, above the …
Philippians 3:7-8 But what things were gain to me, those I counted loss for Christ…
2 Peter 1:17 For he received from God the Father honor and glory, when there came …
Revelation 21:23,24 And the city had no need of the sun, neither of the moon, to shine …
Revelation 22:5 And there shall be no night there; and they need no candle, neither …
For if that which is done away was glorious, much more that which remaineth is glorious.
Seeing then that we have such hope, we use great plainness of speech:
we use.
2 Corinthians 4:2,3,13 But have renounced the hidden things of dishonesty, not walking in …
John 10:24 Then came the Jews round about him, and said to him, How long do …
John 16:25,29 These things have I spoken to you in proverbs: but the time comes, …
1 Corinthians 14:19 Yet in the church I had rather speak five words with my understanding, …
Colossians 4:4 That I may make it manifest, as I ought to speak.
plainness. or, boldness.
2 Corinthians 7:4 Great is my boldness of speech toward you, great is my glorying of …
2 Corinthians 10:1 Now I Paul myself beseech you by the meekness and gentleness of Christ, …
Acts 4:13,29-31 Now when they saw the boldness of Peter and John, and perceived that …
Acts 9:27,29 But Barnabas took him, and brought him to the apostles, and declared …
Acts 14:3 Long time therefore stayed they speaking boldly in the Lord, which …
Ephesians 6:19,20 And for me, that utterance may be given to me, that I may open my …
Philippians 1:20 According to my earnest expectation and my hope, that in nothing …
1 Thessalonians 2:2 But even after that we had suffered before, and were shamefully entreated, …
1 Timothy 3:13 For they that have used the office of a deacon well purchase to themselves …
And not as Moses, which put a vail over his face, that the children of Israel could not stedfastly look to the end of that which is abolished:
But their minds were blinded: for until this day remaineth the same vail untaken away in the reading of the old testament; which vail is done away in Christ.
their.
2 Corinthians 4:3,4 But if our gospel be hid, it is hid to them that are lost…
Psalm 69:23 Let their eyes be darkened, that they see not; and make their loins …
Isaiah 6:10 Make the heart of this people fat, and make their ears heavy, and …
Isaiah 26:10-12 Let favor be showed to the wicked, yet will he not learn righteousness: …
Isaiah 42:18-20 Hear, you deaf; and look, you blind, that you may see…
Isaiah 44:18 They have not known nor understood: for he has shut their eyes, that …
Isaiah 56:10 His watchmen are blind: they are all ignorant, they are all dumb …
Isaiah 59:10 We grope for the wall like the blind, and we grope as if we had no …
Jeremiah 5:21 Hear now this, O foolish people, and without understanding; which …
Ezekiel 12:2 Son of man, you dwell in the middle of a rebellious house, which …
Matthew 6:23 But if your eye be evil, your whole body shall be full of darkness. …
Matthew 13:11,13-15 He answered and said to them, Because it is given to you to know …
John 9:39-41 And Jesus said, For judgment I am come into this world, that they …
John 12:40 He has blinded their eyes, and hardened their heart; that they should …
Acts 28:26,27 Saying, Go to this people, and say, Hearing you shall hear, and shall …
Romans 11:7-10,25 What then? Israel has not obtained that which he seeks for; but the …
which vail.
2 Corinthians 4:6 For God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, has shined …
Isaiah 25:7 And he will destroy in this mountain the face of the covering cast …
Matthew 16:17 And Jesus answered and said to him, Blessed are you, Simon Barjona: …
Luke 18:31-34 Then he took to him the twelve, and said to them, Behold, we go up …
Luke 24:25-27,44-46 Then he said to them, O fools, and slow of heart to believe all that …
John 8:12 Then spoke Jesus again to them, saying, I am the light of the world: …
John 12:46 I am come a light into the world, that whoever believes on me should …
Acts 16:14 And a certain woman named Lydia, a seller of purple, of the city …
Acts 26:18 To open their eyes, and to turn them from darkness to light, and …
Ephesians 1:17-20 That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory…
But even unto this day, when Moses is read, the vail is upon their heart.
Nevertheless when it shall turn to the Lord, the vail shall be taken away.
when.
Exodus 34:34 But when Moses went in before the LORD to speak with him, he took …
Deuteronomy 4:30 When you are in tribulation, and all these things are come on you, …
Deuteronomy 30:10 If you shall listen to the voice of the LORD your God…
Lamentations 3:40 Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to the LORD.
Hosea 3:4,5 For the children of Israel shall abide many days without a king, …
Romans 11:25-27 For I would not, brothers, that you should be ignorant of this mystery, …
the vail.
Isaiah 25:7 And he will destroy in this mountain the face of the covering cast …
Isaiah 29:18 And in that day shall the deaf hear the words of the book, and the …
Isaiah 54:13 And all your children shall be taught of the LORD; and great shall …
Jeremiah 31:34 And they shall teach no more every man his neighbor, and every man …
John 6:45,46 It is written in the prophets, And they shall be all taught of God. …
Now the Lord is that Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.
But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord.
with.
2 Corinthians 3:13 And not as Moses, which put a veil over his face…
as in.
1 Corinthians 13:12 For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now …
James 1:23 For if any be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like to …
the glory.
2 Corinthians 4:4,6 In whom the god of this world has blinded the minds of them which …
John 1:14 And the Word was made flesh, and dwelled among us, (and we beheld his glory…
John 12:41 These things said Esaias, when he saw his glory, and spoke of him.
1 Timothy 1:11 According to the glorious gospel of the blessed God, which was committed …
are.
2 Corinthians 5:17 Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things …
Romans 8:29 For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed …
Romans 12:2 And be not conformed to this world: but be you transformed by the …
Romans 13:14 But put you on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not provision for …
1 Corinthians 15:49 And as we have borne the image of the earthy, we shall also bear …
Galatians 6:15 For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision avails any thing, nor uncircumcision, …
Ephesians 4:22-24 That you put off concerning the former conversation the old man, …
Colossians 3:10 And have put on the new man, which is renewed in knowledge after …
Titus 3:5 Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to …
2 Peter 1:5-9 And beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue; …
from.
Romans 8:4,7 That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk …
by the Spirit of the Lord. or, of the Lord the Spirit.
2 Corinthians 3:17 Now the Lord is that Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord is, …
