Parallel Verses
An Understandable Version
You people are our letters [of recommendation], written on our hearts, known and read by everyone.
New American Standard Bible
King James Version
Ye are our epistle written in our hearts, known and read of all men:
Holman Bible
You yourselves are our letter, written on our hearts, recognized and read by everyone.
International Standard Version
You are our letter, written in our hearts and known and read by everyone.
A Conservative Version
Ye are our letter, written in our hearts, known and read by all men,
American Standard Version
Ye are our epistle, written in our hearts, known and read of all men;
Amplified
You are our letter [of recommendation], written in our hearts, recognized and read by everyone.
Anderson New Testament
You are our letter, written in our hearts, known and read by all men;
Bible in Basic English
You yourselves are our letter, whose writing is in our heart, open for every man's reading and knowledge;
Common New Testament
You yourselves are our letter, written in our hearts, known and read by all men.
Daniel Mace New Testament
you are my epistle, your conversion being writ in. my heart, known and read by all men:
Darby Translation
Ye are our letter, written in our hearts, known and read of all men,
Godbey New Testament
You are our letter, having been written in our hearts, known and read of all men,
Goodspeed New Testament
You are my recommendations, written on my heart, for everybody to read and understand.
John Wesley New Testament
Ye are our letter, written on our hearts, known and read by all men:
Julia Smith Translation
Ye are our epistle written in our hearts, known and acknowledged by all men:
King James 2000
You are our epistle written in our hearts, known and read of all men:
Lexham Expanded Bible
You are our letter, inscribed on our hearts, known and read by all people,
Modern King James verseion
You are our epistle written in our hearts, known and read by all men,
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Ye are our epistle, written in our hearts, which is understood and read of all men;
Moffatt New Testament
Why, you are my certificate yourselves, written on my heart, recognized and read by all men;
Montgomery New Testament
You are my letter, written on my heart, known and read by all men.
NET Bible
You yourselves are our letter, written on our hearts, known and read by everyone,
New Heart English Bible
You are our letter, written in our hearts, known and read by all men;
Noyes New Testament
Ye are our letter, written in our hearts, known and read by all men;
Sawyer New Testament
You are our epistle, written by our hearts, known and read by all men,
The Emphasized Bible
Our letter, ye, are, inscribed in our hearts, noted and read by all men:
Thomas Haweis New Testament
Ye are our letter written in our hearts, acknowledged and read of all men:
Twentieth Century New Testament
You yourselves are our letter--a letter written on our hearts, and one which everybody can read and understand.
Webster
Ye are our epistle written in our hearts, known and read by all men:
Weymouth New Testament
Our letter of recommendation is yourselves--a letter written on our hearts and everywhere known and read.
Williams New Testament
You are my letter of recommendation, written on my heart, read and understood by everybody,
World English Bible
You are our letter, written in our hearts, known and read by all men;
Worrell New Testament
Ye are our letter, written in our hearts, known and read by all men;
Worsley New Testament
Ye are our epistle, inscribed on our hearts, known and read by all men:
Youngs Literal Translation
our letter ye are, having been written in our hearts, known and read by all men,
Themes
Christian ministers » Success attending » Paul
Epistle » The epistle of Christ
Ministry » Who is a minister of God
Seven » Editions of the divine law » 7th edition the outward Christian life living epistles
Interlinear
hemon
ἡμῶν
hemon
Usage: 388
References
Morish
Word Count of 37 Translations in 2 Corinthians 3:2
Verse Info
Context Readings
New Covenant Ministry
1 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? 2 You people are our letters [of recommendation], written on our hearts, known and read by everyone. 3 You people show [i.e., by your conversions] that you are a letter from Christ, delivered by us [i.e., the result of our ministry], not written with ink but with the Holy Spirit of the living God; not on stone tablets [i.e., as in the case with Moses' ministry], but on tablets of the human heart. [See Jer. 31:33; Heb. 8:10].
Cross References
Romans 1:8
First of all, I want to thank my God through Jesus Christ for all of you, because your faith is being told about throughout the whole world.
1 Corinthians 3:10
Using the unearned favor shown to me by God [Note: Paul here probably refers to his apostleship and its attending spiritual gifts], as an expert building contractor, I laid the foundation [i.e., in starting the Corinthian church], and someone else is building on it [i.e., Apollos. See verse 6].
1 Corinthians 9:1-2
Am I not a free man? Am I not an apostle? Have I not seen Jesus our Lord? [See Acts 9:17; I Cor. 15:8]. Are you people not [the result of] my work in [the service of] the Lord?
2 Corinthians 7:3
I am not saying this to condemn you, for [as] I said before, you have such a place in our hearts that we would live or die with you.
2 Corinthians 11:11
Why [am I doing this]? Is it because I do not love you? God knows [I do].
2 Corinthians 12:15
So, I will most gladly spend [all I have], and [even] spend myself for the sake of your souls. If I love you so much, should you love me less [than that]?
Philippians 1:7
It is right for me to think this way about all of you, because I have you in my heart [i.e., you are dear to me], for you people are sharing in God's unearned favor with me [Note: Paul here refers to his ministry], both in my imprisonment and in my defense and confirmation of the Gospel [i.e., in my efforts to give proof of the Gospel's truth].
1 Thessalonians 1:8
For the Lord's message sounded forth from you, not only in Macedonia and Achaia, but your faith toward God [also] spread everywhere [else], so that we do not have to say anything [about you].