37 Bible Verses about Letters

Therefore, brethren, stand fast and hold the traditions, which ye have been taught, whether by word, or by our Epistle.

I beseech you, brethren, suffer the word of exhortation; for I have written a letter to you in few words.

Writing thus by their hand, The apostles, and the elders, and the brethren salute the brethren who are of the Gentiles, in Antioch, and Syria, and Cilicia. Forasmuch as we have heard, that some who came from us have troubled you with words, unsettling your minds, saying, Ye must be circumcised, and keep the law, whom we commanded not. It seemed good to us, being assembled with one accord, to send to you chosen men,read more.
with our beloved Barnabas and Paul, Men that have hazarded their lives, for the name of our Lord Jesus Christ. We have sent therefore Judas and Silas, who will also tell you the same things by mouth. For it seemed good to the Holy Ghost and to us, that no further burden be laid upon you than these necessary things, To abstain from meats offered to idols and blood, and things strangled and fornication; from which keeping yourselves ye will do well. Fare ye well. So being dismissed they came to Antioch, and having assembled the multitude, they delivered the epistle: Which having read, they rejoiced for the consolation.

I wrote to you in an epistle, Not to converse with lewd persons.

That I may not seem to terrify you by letters. For his letters indeed, say they, are weighty and strong; but his bodily presence is weak, and his speech contemptible. Let such an one think this, that such as we are in word by letters, when we are absent, such are we also in deed, when we are present.

And when this epistle hath been read among you, cause that it be read also in the church of the Laodiceans, and that ye likewise read the epistle from Laodicea.

I charge you by the Lord, that this epistle be read to all the brethren.

This second epistle, beloved, I now write to you, in both which I stir up your pure minds by way of remembrance,

Now I beseech you, brethren, concerning the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and our gathering together unto him, That ye be not soon shaken in mind or terrified, neither by spirit, nor by word, nor by letter, as from us, as if the day of the Lord were at hand.

But Saul still breathing threatening and slaughter against the disciples of the Lord, going to the high priest, Desired of him letters to Damascus to the synagogues, that if he found any of this way, he might bring both men and women bound to Jerusalem.

from whom also I received letters to the brethren, and went to Damascus, to bring them who were there to Jerusalem to be punished.

And when I am come, whomsoever ye shall approve, them will I send with letters, to carry your gift to Jerusalem.

And he wrote a letter after this manner, Claudius Lysias to the most excellent Governor Felix, greeting.

Do we again begin to recommend ourselves? Unless we need, as some do, recommendatory letters to you, or recommendatory letters from you?

Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, called to be an apostle, separated to the gospel of God,

Paul, called to be an apostle of Jesus Christ through the will of God,

Paul an apostle of Jesus Christ, by the will of God, and Timotheus our brother, to the church of God that is in Corinth, with all the saints that are in all Achaia:

Paul and Timotheus, the servants of Jesus Christ, to all the saints who are at Philippi, with the bishops and deacons,

Paul an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, and Timotheus a brother,

Paul an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, to the saints who are at Ephesus,

Paul and Silvanus and Timotheus to the church of the Thessalonians in God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ, Grace be unto you and Peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

Paul and Silvanus and Timotheus to the church of the Thessalonians in God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

Paul an apostle of Jesus Christ, by the commandment of God our Saviour,

Paul an apostle of Jesus Christ, by the will of God, according to the promise of eternal life,

Paul a servant of God, and an Apostle of Jesus Christ, in things concerning the faith of God's elect, and the knowledge of the truth which is after godliness,

And account the long-suffering of our Lord salvation, as our beloved brother Paul also, according to the wisdom given him, hath written to you: As also in all his epistles, speaking therein of these things, in which are some things hard to be understood, which the unlearned and unstable wrest, as they do also the other scriptures, to their own destruction.

James a servant of God, and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes which are scattered abroad, greeting.

Peter an Apostle of Jesus Christ to the sojourners scattered thro' Pontus,

Simon Peter, a servant and an apostle of Jesus Christ, to them that have obtained like precious faith with us, thro' the righteousness of our God and Saviour Jesus Christ.

To the angel of the church at Ephesus write, These things saith he that holdeth the seven stars in his right-hand, that walketh in the midst of the seven golden candlesticks.

And to the angel of the church at Sardis write, These things saith he that hath the seven spirits of God, and the seven stars, I know thy works, that thou hast a name that thou livest, but art dead.

I Tertius, who wrote this epistle, salute you in the Lord.

By Silvanus, a faithful brother, as I suppose, I have written briefly to you, exhorting and adding my testimony, that this is the true grace of God wherein ye stand,

For verily I say to you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all things be effected.

Ye see how large a letter I have written to you with my own hand.