2 Corinthians 3:1

Ministers of the New Covenant

¹ Do _a we begin again to commend ourselves? Or do we need, as some others, _b epistles of commendation to you or letters of commendation from you?

1. Cross References
   2 Corinthians 5:12
   For we do not commend ourselves again to you, but give you opportunity to boast on our behalf, that you may have an answer for those who boast in appearance and not in heart.
   2 Corinthians 10:12
   For we dare not class ourselves or compare ourselves with those who commend themselves. But they, measuring themselves by themselves, and comparing themselves among themselves, are not wise.
   2 Corinthians 10:18
   For not he who commends himself is approved, but whom the Lord commends.
   2 Corinthians 12:11
   I have become a fool in boasting; you have compelled me. For I ought to have been commended by you; for in nothing was I behind the most eminent apostles, though I am nothing.
   
2. Cross References
   Acts 18:27
   And when he desired to cross to Achaia, the brethren wrote, exhorting the disciples to receive him; and when he arrived, he greatly helped those who had believed through grace.