2 Corinthians 3:1 KJV

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

Matthew Henry

Parallel Passages

  • Acts 18:27 And when he was disposed to pass into Achaia, the brethren wrote, exhorting the disciples to receive him: who, when he was come, helped them much which had believed through grace:
  • 2 Corinthians 5:12 For we commend not ourselves again unto you, but give you occasion to glory on our behalf, that ye may have somewhat to answer them which glory in appearance, and not in heart.

From Thompson’s Chain-Reference Bible (1908).

Cross References

  • Acts 18:27 And when he was disposed to pass into Achaia, the brethren wrote, exhorting the disciples to receive him: who, when he was come, helped them much which had believed through grace:
  • 2 Corinthians 5:12 For we commend not ourselves again unto you, but give you occasion to glory on our behalf, that ye may have somewhat to answer them which glory in appearance, and not in heart.
  • 2 Corinthians 12:11 I am become a fool in glorying; ye have compelled me: for I ought to have been commended of you: for in nothing am I behind the very chiefest apostles, though I be nothing.
  • 1 Corinthians 16:3 And when I come, whomsoever ye shall approve by your letters, them will I send to bring your liberality unto Jerusalem.
  • 2 Corinthians 10:12 For we dare not make ourselves of the number, or compare ourselves with some that commend themselves: but they measuring themselves by themselves, and comparing themselves among themselves, are not wise.

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Strong’s Numbers

  • Do we begin ἄρχομαι árchomai
  • again πάλιν pálin
  • to commend συνιστάω synistáō
  • ourselves ἑαυτοῦ heautoû
  • or εἰ μή ei mḗ
  • need we χρῄζω chrḗizō
  • as ὡς hōs
  • some τὶς tìs
  • epistles ἐπιστολή epistolḗ
  • of commendation συστατικός systatikós
  • to πρός prós
  • you ὑμᾶς hymâs
  • or ἤ ḗ
  • of commendation συστατικός systatikós
  • from ἐκ ek
  • you ὑμῶν hymōn

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