2 Corinthians 3:1

A Living Letter

3:1 Are we beginning to commend ourselves again? We don’t need letters of recommendation to you or from you as some other people do, do we? ¹ 

2 Corinthians 10:10-11

10:10 because some say, “His letters are weighty and forceful, but his physical presence is weak ²  and his speech is of no account.” ³  10:11 Let such a person consider this: What we say ⁴  by letters when we are absent, we also are in actions when we are present.

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¹ tn The Greek construction anticipates a negative reply (“No, we do not”) which is indicated in the translation by the ‘tag’ at the end, “do we?”

² tn Or “unimpressive.”

³ tn Or “is contemptible”; Grk “is despised.”

⁴ tn Grk “what we are in word.”