37 Bible Verses about Letters

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Hebrews 13:22

But I exhort you, brethren, to receive the word of consolation: for I have indeed written unto you briefly.

Acts 15:23-31

having written through their hand; The apostles and elders, brethren to the brethren who are from the Gentiles throughout Antioch and Syria and Cilicia greeting. Since we heard that certain ones having come out from us troubled you, disturbing your souls with words which we did not command: it seemed good to us, being of one accord, having chosen men to send them to you along with our beloved Barnabas and Paul,read more.
men who have imperiled their lives for the name of our Lord Jesus Christ. Therefore we have sent Judas and Silas, themselves also proclaiming the same things by speech. For it seemed good to the Holy Ghost, and to us, to lay upon you no more burden than these necessary things, to abstain from things offered to idols, and from blood, and from things strangled, and from fornication: from which keeping yourselves, you will do well. Fare ye well. Then indeed they, having been sent away, came down into Antioch, and convening the multitude, they delivered the letter. And having read it, they rejoiced over the consolation.

2 Corinthians 10:9-11

in order that I may not seem as it were to terrify you by my letters. Because they say, His letters are indeed weighty and powerful; but the presence of his body is weak, and his speech contemptible. Let such a one consider this, that, such as we are in word by our letters while absent, such we really are in work being present.

Colossians 4:16

And when the letter may be read by you, cause that it may also be read in the church of the Laodiceans; and that you may also read the letter from Laodicea.

1 Thessalonians 5:27

I adjure you in the name of the Lord, that this epistle shall be read to all the brethren.

2 Peter 3:1

I indeed, beloved, write unto you this second epistle; in which I stir up your pure mind by remembrance:

2 Thessalonians 2:1-2

But we beseech you, brethren, concerning the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and our gathering unto him; that you be not suddenly shaken from your mind, nor disturbed, whether by a spirit, or through word, or a letter as by us, as that the day of the Lord has come.

Acts 9:1-2

But Saul, still breathing out threatenings and slaughter against the disciples of the Lord, having come to the high priest, asked from him letters to Damascus against the synagogues, in order that if he should find any being of the way, both men and women, he might lead them bound to Jerusalem.

Acts 22:5

as the high priest also, and all the eldership, witnessed me: from whom having also received letters from the brethren in Damascus, I was on my way, being about to lead them also hither into Jerusalem bound, that they might be punished.

1 Corinthians 16:3

But when I may be present, whomsoever you may approve by your letters, these will I send to carry away your benefaction to Jerusalem:

Acts 23:25

Writing a letter having this form:

2 Corinthians 3:1

Do we again begin to commend ourselves? or whether have we need of commendatory letters to you or from you, as some do?

2 Corinthians 1:1

Paul, the apostle of Jesus Christ through the will of God, and brother Timothy, to the church of God which is at Corinth, along with all the saints who are in all Achaia:

Colossians 1:1

Paul, the apostle of Jesus Christ through the will of God, and brother Timothy,

Ephesians 1:1

Paul, the apostle of Jesus Christ through the will of God, to the saints who are in Ephesus, and to the faithful in Christ Jesus.

1 Thessalonians 1:1

Paul, and Silvanus, and Timothy, to the church of the Thessalonians in God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. Grace to you and peace.

2 Thessalonians 1:1

Paul, and Silvanus, and Timothy, unto the Church of the Thessalonians in God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

2 Timothy 1:1

Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ through the will of God, according to the commandment of life which is in Christ Jesus,

Titus 1:1

Paul, the servant of God, and apostle of Jesus Christ, according to the faith of the elect of God, and the perfect knowledge of the truth which is according to godliness,

2 Peter 3:15-16

and consider the longsuffering of the Lord's salvation; as our beloved brother Paul according to the wisdom which was given unto him has written unto you; as also in all his epistles, speaking in the same concerning these things; in which there are some things hard to understand, which the unlearned and unestablished wrest, as they also do the other scriptures, to their own destruction.

1 Peter 1:1

Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, to the elect sojourners of the Dispersion of Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia,

Revelation 2:1

To the angel who is in the church at Ephesus write; The one holding the seven stars in his right hand, the one walking about in the midst of the golden candlesticks, says these things;

Revelation 3:1

And to the angel of the church in Sardis write; The one having the seven Spirits of God, and the seven stars, says these things; I know your works, that you have a name that you are living, and are dead.

Romans 16:22

I Tertius, the one writing the epistle, salute you in the Lord.

1 Peter 5:12

Through Silvanus, the faithful brother, as I consider, I have written unto you briefly, exhorting, and witnessing that this same grace of God is true in which you may stand.

Galatians 6:11

You see with how large letters I have written unto you with my own hand.

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Letters » Claudius lysias to felix

Acts 23:25-30

Writing a letter having this form: Claudius Lysias to the most noble governor Felix, greeting. This man, having been taken by the Jews, and being about to be put to death by them, having interposed with my army, I took out of their hands, having learned that he is a Roman: read more.
and wishing to know the cause on account of which they clamored against him, I led him into their sanhedrim: whom I found accused concerning questions of their law, having no charge worthy of death or bonds. And a plot from them being revealed to me to be against the man, I sent him to thee, having commanded his accusers also to speak in thy presence.

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, the prisoner of Jesus Christ, and brother Timothy, to Philemon the beloved also our fellow-laborer,

Letters » Of recommendation

2 Corinthians 3:1

Do we again begin to commend ourselves? or whether have we need of commendatory letters to you or from you, as some do?

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

Acts 1:1

Truly, I made the first history, O Theophilus, concerning all things which Jesus began both to do and to teach,

Letters » Open letter from sanballat to nehemiah

Topics on Letters

Letters To Local Churches

Galatians 1:2

and all the brethren who are with me, to the churches of Galatia.

Writing Letters

2 Corinthians 3:2-3

You are our letter, having been written in our hearts, known and read of all men,

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