4Such confidence as this is ours through Christ before God.
4Such confidence as this is ours through Christ before God.
1 Are we beginning to commend ourselves again? Or do we need, like some people, letters of recommendation to you or from you?
2 You yourselves are our letter, written on our hearts, known and read by everybody.
3 You show that you are a letter from Christ, the result of our ministry, written not with ink but with the Spirit of the living God, not on tablets of stone but on tablets of human hearts.
4 Such confidence as this is ours through Christ before God.
5 Not that we are competent in ourselves to claim anything for ourselves, but our competence comes from God.
6 He has made us competent as ministers of a new covenant--not of the letter but of the Spirit; for the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.
3:4And such trust have we through Christ to God- ward:
3:4and such trust we have through the Christ toward God,
3:4And such confidence we have, through Christ, towards God.
3:4And such confidence have we through Christ to God-ward:
3:4And such confidence have we through the Christ towards God:
3:4And such confidence have we through Christ to God-ward:
3:4And such trust we have through Christ toward God.
3:4Such confidence we have through Christ toward God;
3:4And such trust have we through Christ to God-ward: