Parallel Verses
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
We begin to praise ourselves again. Need we, as some others, of epistles of recommendation unto you? Or letters of recommendation from you?
New American Standard Bible
Are we beginning to
King James Version
Do we begin again to commend ourselves? or need we, as some others, epistles of commendation to you, or letters of commendation from you?
Holman Bible
Are we beginning to commend ourselves again? Or do we need, like some, letters of recommendation to you or from you?
International Standard Version
Are we beginning to recommend ourselves again? Unlike some people, we do not need letters of recommendation to you or from you, do we?
A Conservative Version
Are we beginning again to commend ourselves? Unless we need, as some men, commendatory letters to you or commendatory from you?
American Standard Version
Are we beginning again to commend ourselves? or need we, as do some, epistles of commendation to you or from you?
Amplified
Are we starting to commend ourselves again? Or do we need, like some [false teachers], letters of recommendation to you or from you? [No!]
An Understandable Version
Are we beginning to commend ourselves again [i.e., by saying that we are not like other people]? Or, do we need letters of recommendation to you or from you, as others do?
Anderson New Testament
Do we begin again to commend ourselves? or do we need, as some do, letters of commendation to you, or letters of commendation from you?
Bible in Basic English
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?
Common New Testament
Are we beginning to commend ourselves again? Or do we need, as some do, letters of recommendation to you, or from you?
Daniel Mace New Testament
Do I begin again to commend my self? or need I, as some others, commendatory letters to you, or from you?
Darby Translation
Do we begin again to commend ourselves? or do we need, as some, commendatory letters to you, or commendatory from you?
Godbey New Testament
Do we again begin to commend ourselves? or whether have we need of commendatory letters to you or from you, as some do?
Goodspeed New Testament
Am I falling into self-recommendation again? Do I, like some people, need letters of recommendation to you or from you?
John Wesley New Testament
Do we again begin to recommend ourselves? Unless we need, as some do, recommendatory letters to you, or recommendatory letters from you?
Julia Smith Translation
Begin we again to recommend ourselves or need we not, as some; recommendatory epistles to you, or recommendatory from you?
King James 2000
Do we begin again to commend ourselves? or need we, as some others, epistles of commendation to you, or letters of commendation from you?
Lexham Expanded Bible
Are we beginning to commend ourselves again? Or [do we], like some, need letters of recommendation to you or from you?
Modern King James verseion
Do we begin again to commend ourselves? Or do we need, like some, epistles of commendation to you, or letters of commendation from you?
Moffatt New Testament
Am I beginning again to 'commend' myself? Do I need, like some people, to be commended by written certificates either to you or from you?
Montgomery New Testament
Am I beginning again to "recommend" myself? Or do I need, as some do, letters of commendation either to you or from you?
NET Bible
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?
New Heart English Bible
Are we beginning again to commend ourselves? We do not need, as do some, letters of commendation to you or from you, do we?
Noyes New Testament
Are we beginning again to recommend ourselves? Or do we need, like some others, letters of recommendation to you, or letters of recommendation from you?
Sawyer New Testament
Do we begin again to commend ourselves? or need we, as some, commendatory epistles to you or from you?
The Emphasized Bible
Are we to begin again, ourselves, to commend? or have we need, like some, of commendatory letters unto you, or from you?
Thomas Haweis New Testament
DO we begin again to commend ourselves? or need we, as some, commendatory letters to you, or commendatory letters from you?
Twentieth Century New Testament
Are we beginning to commend ourselves again? Or are we like some who need letters of commendation to you, or from you?
Webster
Do we begin again to commend ourselves? or need we, as some others, epistles of commendation to you, or letters of commendation from you.
Weymouth New Testament
Do you say that this is self-recommendation once more? Or do we need, as some do, letters of recommendation to you or from you?
Williams New Testament
Am I beginning to recommend myself again? I do not, like some people, do I, need letters of recommendation to you or from you?
World English Bible
Are we beginning again to commend ourselves? Or do we need, as do some, letters of commendation to you or from you?
Worrell New Testament
Are we beginning again to commend ourselves? Or need we, as do some, commendatory letters to you, or from you?
Worsley New Testament
Do we begin again to recommend ourselves? or do we need, as some do, recommendatory epistles to you, or letters of recommendation from you?
Youngs Literal Translation
Do we begin again to recommend ourselves, except we need, as some, letters of recommendation unto you, or from you?
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Word Count of 37 Translations in 2 Corinthians 3:1
Images 2 Corinthians 3:1
Prayers for 2 Corinthians 3:1
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New Covenant Ministry
1 We begin to praise ourselves again. Need we, as some others, of epistles of recommendation unto you? Or letters of recommendation from you? 2 Ye are our epistle, written in our hearts, which is understood and read of all men;
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Cross References
Acts 18:27
And when he was disposed to go into Achaia, the brethren wrote, exhorting the disciples to receive him. After he was come thither he helped them much, which had believed through grace.
2 Corinthians 5:12
We praise not ourselves again unto you, but give you an occasion to rejoice of us, that ye may have somewhat against them, which rejoice in the face, and not in the heart.
2 Corinthians 12:11
I am made a fool in boasting myself. Ye have compelled me: I ought to have been commended of you. For in nothing was I inferior unto the chief apostles, though I be nothing:
1 Corinthians 16:3
When I am come, whosoever ye shall allow by your letters, them will I send to bring your liberality unto Jerusalem.
2 Corinthians 10:12
For we cannot find in our hearts to make ourselves of the number of them, or to compare ourselves to them, which laud themselves. Nevertheless, while they measure themselves with themselves, and compare themselves with themselves, they understand nought.
1 Corinthians 3:10
According to the grace of God given unto me, as a wise builder have I laid the foundation; and another hath built thereon. But let every man take heed how he buildeth upon.
1 Corinthians 4:15
For though ye have ten thousand instructors in Christ: yet have ye not many fathers. In Christ Jesus, I have begotten you through the gospel.
1 Corinthians 10:33
Even as I please all men in all things not seeking mine own profit, but the profit of many, that they might be saved.
2 Corinthians 2:17
For we are not as many are, which chop and change with the word of God: but even out of pureness, and by the power of God and in the sight of God, so speak we in Christ.
2 Corinthians 10:8
And though I should boast myself somewhat more of our authority which the Lord hath given us to edify and not to destroy you, it should not be to my shame.
2 Corinthians 12:19
Again, think ye that we excuse ourselves? We speak in Christ in the sight of God. But we do all things, dearly beloved, for your edifying.