2 Corinthians 3:1-6
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q Are we beginning to commend ourselves again? Or do we need, r as some do, s letters of recommendation to you, or from you?
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t You yourselves are our letter of recommendation, written on our hearts, to be known and read by all.
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And you show that you are a letter from Christ delivered by us, written not with ink but with the Spirit of u the living God, not on v tablets of stone but on w tablets of x human hearts.
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y Such is the confidence that we have through Christ toward God.
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z Not that we are sufficient in ourselves to claim anything as coming from us, but a our sufficiency is from God,
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who has made us competent to be b ministers of c a new covenant, not of d the letter but of the Spirit. For the letter kills, but e the Spirit gives life.
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2 Corinthians 5:12
We are not commending ourselves to you again but giving you cause to boast about us, so that you may be able to answer those who boast about outward appearance and not about what is in the heart.
2 Corinthians 10:12
Not that we dare to classify or compare ourselves with some of those who are commending themselves. But when they measure themselves by one another and compare themselves with one another, they are without understanding.
2 Corinthians 12:11
I have been a fool! You forced me to it, for I ought to have been commended by you. For I was not at all inferior to these super-apostles, even though I am nothing.
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2 Corinthians 11:4
For if someone comes and proclaims another Jesus than the one we proclaimed, or if you receive a different spirit from the one you received, or if you accept a different gospel from the one you accepted, you put up with it readily enough.
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Acts 18:27
And when he wished to cross to Achaia, the brothers encouraged him and wrote to the disciples to welcome him. When he arrived, he greatly helped those who through grace had believed.
1 Corinthians 16:3
And when I arrive, I will send those whom you accredit by letter to carry your gift to Jerusalem.
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1 Corinthians 9:2
If to others I am not an apostle, at least I am to you, for you are the seal of my apostleship in the Lord.
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Matthew 16:16
Simon Peter replied, "You are the Christ, the Son of the living God.
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Exodus 24:12
The Lord said to Moses, "Come up to me on the mountain and wait there, that I may give you the tablets of stone, with the law and the commandment, which I have written for their instruction.
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Proverbs 3:3
Let not steadfast love and faithfulness forsake you; bind them around your neck; write them on the tablet of your heart.
Proverbs 7:3
Bind them on your fingers; write them on the tablet of your heart.
Jeremiah 17:1
The sin of Judah is written with a pen of iron; with a point of diamond it is engraved on the tablet of their heart, and on the horns of their altars.
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Ezekiel 11:19
And I will give them one heart, and a new spirit I will put within them. I will remove the heart of stone from their flesh and give them a heart of flesh.
Ezekiel 36:26
And I will give you a new heart, and a new spirit I will put within you. And I will remove the heart of stone from your flesh and give you a heart of flesh.
Jeremiah 31:33
But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, declares the Lord : I will put my law within them, and I will write it on their hearts. And I will be their God, and they shall be my people.
Hebrews 8:10
For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, declares the Lord: I will put my laws into their minds, and write them on their hearts, and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.
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Ephesians 3:12
In whom we have boldness and access with confidence through our faith in him.
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Ephesians 2:8
For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God.
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1 Corinthians 15:10
But by the grace of God I am what I am, and his grace toward me was not in vain. On the contrary, I worked harder than any of them, though it was not I, but the grace of God that is with me.
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Ephesians 3:7
Of this gospel I was made a minister according ...
Colossians 1:23
If indeed you continue in the faith, stable and...
Colossians 1:25
Of which I became a minister according to the s...
2 Corinthians 4:1
Therefore, having this ministry by the mercy of...
2 Corinthians 5:18
All this is from God, who through Christ reconc...
1 Timothy 1:12
I thank him who has given me strength, Christ J...
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Jeremiah 31:31
Behold, the days are coming, declares the Lord,...
Luke 22:20
And likewise the cup after they had eaten, sayi...
1 Corinthians 11:25
In the same way also he took the cup, after sup...
Hebrews 8:8
For he finds fault with them when he says: "Beh...
Hebrews 8:13
In speaking of a new covenant, he makes the fir...
2 Corinthians 3:14
But their minds were hardened. For to this day,...
Hebrews 9:15
Therefore he is the mediator of a new covenant,...
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Romans 2:27
Then he who is physically uncircumcised but keeps the law will condemn you who have the written code and circumcision but break the law.
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John 6:63
It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh is no help at all. The words that I have spoken to you are spirit and life.
Romans 8:2
For the law of the Spirit of life has set you free in Christ Jesus from the law of sin and death.
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