NET Bible
"A Living Letter 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?"
— 2 Corinthians 3:1, NET Bible
“Do we begin again to commend ourselves? or need we, as some others, epistles of commendation to you, or letters of commendation from you?”
“Are we beginning again to commend ourselves? or need we, as do some, epistles of commendation to you or from you? ”
“Are we beginning again to commend ourselves? Or do we need, as do some, letters of commendation to you or from you?”
“Do we begin again to commend ourselves? Or do we need (as some do) epistles of commendation to you, or from you?”
“Do we seem to be again attempting to put ourselves in the right? or have we need, as some have, of letters of approval to you or from you?”
“Do we begin again to commend ourselves? or need we, as some others, epistles of commendation to you, or letters of commendation from you?”
A Living Letter 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?
You yourselves are our letter, written on our hearts, known and read by everyone,
revealing that you are a letter of Christ, delivered by us, written not with ink but by the Spirit of the living God, not on stone tablets but on tablets of human hearts.
Now we have such confidence in God through Christ.