37 Bible Verses about Letters

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Hebrews 13:22

I beg you brothers, to listen patiently to this appeal, for I have written you but briefly.

Acts 15:23-31

They were the bearers of this letter: "The apostles and the brothers who are elders send greeting to the brothers of heathen birth in Antioch, Syria, and Cilicia. As we have heard that some of our number, without any instructions from us, have disturbed you by their teaching and unsettled your minds, we have unanimously resolved to select representatives and send them to you with our dear brothers Barnabas and Paul,read more.
who have risked their lives for the sake of our Lord Jesus Christ. So we send Judas and Silas to you, to give you this same message by word of mouth. For the holy Spirit and we have decided not to lay upon you any burden but this indispensable one, that you avoid whatever has been sacrificed to idols, the tasting of blood and of the meat of animals that have been strangled, and immorality. Keep yourselves free from these things and you will get on well. Goodbye." So the delegates went down to Antioch and gathered the congregation together and delivered the letter; and when they read it they were delighted with the encouragement it gave them.

1 Corinthians 5:9

I wrote you in my letter not to associate with immoral people??10 not that you are to have nothing whatever to do with the immoral people of the world, any more than with its greedy and grasping people or idolaters, for then you would have to leave the world altogether.

2 Corinthians 10:9-11

I do not want to seem to scare you with my letters. For they say, "His letters are impressive and telling, but his personal appearance is insignificant and as a speaker he amounts to nothing." Such people had better understand that when I arrive and take action I will do just as I say I will in my letters when I am far away.

Colossians 4:16

When this letter has been read to you, have it read to the church at Laodicea also, and see that you read the letter that is coming from there.

1 Thessalonians 5:27

I charge you in the Lord's name to have this letter read to all the brothers.

2 Peter 3:1

This is the second letter, dear friends, that I have now written to you, in the effort to arouse your unsullied minds

2 Thessalonians 2:1-2

As to the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, brothers, and our assembling to meet him, we beg you not to let your minds be too easily unsettled or wrought up, by any message of the Spirit or any utterance or letter purporting to be from me, to the effect that the Day of the Lord has already come.

Acts 9:1-2

Now Saul, still breathing murderous threats against the Lord's disciples, went to the high priest, and asked him for letters to the synagogues in Damascus, so that if he found any men or women there who belonged to the Way, he might bring them in chains to Jerusalem.

Acts 22:5

as the high priest and the whole council will bear me witness. In fact, they gave me letters to the brothers in Damascus and I went there to bind those who were there and bring them back to Jerusalem to be punished.

1 Corinthians 16:3

When I come I will send whatever persons you authorize with credentials, to carry your gift to Jerusalem.

Acts 23:25

to whom he wrote a letter to this effect:

2 Corinthians 3:1

Am I falling into self-recommendation again? Do I, like some people, need letters of recommendation to you or from you?

2 Corinthians 1:1

Paul, by God's will an apostle of Christ Jesus, and Timothy our brother, to the church of God that is at Corinth, and all God's people all over Greece;

Colossians 1:1

Paul, by God's will an apostle of Christ Jesus, and our brother Timothy,

1 Thessalonians 1:1

Paul, Silvanus, and Timothy to the Thessalonian church in union with God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ; God bless you and give you peace.

2 Thessalonians 1:1

Paul, Silvanus, and Timothy to the Thessalonian church in union with God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ;

2 Timothy 1:1

Paul, by God's will an apostle of Christ Jesus in fulfilment of the promise of that life which is found in union with Christ Jesus,

Titus 1:1

Paul, a slave of God, and an apostle of Jesus Christ, to arouse faith in those whom God has chosen, and the comprehension of religious truth,

2 Peter 3:15-16

Look upon our Lord's patience as salvation, just as our dear brother Paul, with the wisdom that God gave him, wrote you to do, speaking of it as he does in all his letters. There are some things in them hard to understand, which ignorant, unsteadfast people twist to their own ruin, just as they do the rest of the Scriptures.

1 Peter 1:1

Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, to those who are scattered as foreigners over Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia,

Revelation 2:1

"To the angel of the church in Ephesus write: " 'He who holds the seven stars in his right hand and goes about among the seven gold lampstands speaks thus:

Revelation 3:1

"To the angel of the church in Sardis write: " 'He who holds the seven spirits of God and the seven stars speaks thus: I know what you are doing; you are supposed to be alive, but you are dead.

Romans 16:22

I, Tertius, who write this letter, wish to be remembered to you as a fellow-Christian.

1 Peter 5:12

By Silvanus, our faithful brother, as I think him, I have written you this short letter to encourage you and bear my testimony that this is what the true mercy of God means. Stand fast in it.

Galatians 6:11

See what large letters I make, when I write to you with my own hand!

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Letters » Claudius lysias to felix

Acts 23:25-30

to whom he wrote a letter to this effect: "Claudius Lysias sends greetings to his Excellency Felix, the governor. This man had been seized by the Jews and they were just going to kill him when I came upon them with my men and rescued him, as I had learned that he was a Roman citizen. read more.
As I wanted to learn what charge they made against him, I had him brought before their council, and found that their accusations had to do with questions about their Law, but that he was not charged with anything that would call for his death or imprisonment. As I have been informed that a plot against him is brewing, I am sending him on to you at once, and directing his accusers to present their charges against him before you."

Letters » Rabshakeh to hezekiah

Letters » Written » By david » To joab

Letters » King of syria to king of israel

Letters » Sennacherib to hezekiah

Letters » King of babylon, to hezekiah

Letters » Of artaxerxes to nehemiah

Letters » Letters of intercession by paul and philemon on behalf of onesimus

Philemon 1:1

Paul, a prisoner for Jesus Christ, and brother Timothy, to our dear fellow-worker Philemon,

Letters » Of recommendation

2 Corinthians 3:1

Am I falling into self-recommendation again? Do I, like some people, need letters of recommendation to you or from you?

Letters » Luke to theophilus (the books of luke and acts)

Acts 1:1

In my first volume, Theophilus, I dealt with all that Jesus did and taught from the beginning

Letters » Open letter from sanballat to nehemiah

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