12 occurrences

'Letters' in the Bible

and asked of him letters to Damascus, to the synagogues, so that if he found any who were of the way, both men and women, he might bring them bound to Jerusalem.

Verse ConceptsArrestingequipping, physicalWay, TheTying Updamascus

as also the high priest bears me witness, and all the elderhood: from whom also, having received letters to the brethren, I went to Damascus to bring those also who were there, bound, to Jerusalem, to be punished.

Verse ConceptsLettersSanhedrin

And they said to him, For our part, we have neither received letters from Judaea concerning thee, nor has any one of the brethren who has arrived reported or said anything evil concerning thee.

Verse ConceptsTelling Of People's Situations

And when I am arrived, whomsoever ye shall approve, these I will send with letters to carry your bounty to Jerusalem:

Verse ConceptsJourneyLettersPeople VisitingPraising Specific People

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

Verse ConceptsCommendationLettersCommending OneselfPraising Specific Peoplea new beginningEclipse

(But if the ministry of death, in letters, graven in stones, began with glory, so that the children of Israel could not fix their eyes on the face of Moses, on account of the glory of his face, a glory which is annulled;

Verse ConceptsShining FacesMinistry, Nature OfMoses, Significance OfSpiritually DeadLight Of God's PeopleengravingGod Bestowing GloryMinistry

that I may not seem as if I was frightening you by letters:

Verse ConceptsFearing Other People

because his letters, he says, are weighty and strong, but his presence in the body weak, and his speech naught.

Verse ConceptsCriticism, against believersContempt, Examples OfEloquenceIn Men's PresenceWeaknessSpeech

Let such a one think this, that such as we are in word by letters when absent, such also present in deed.

Verse ConceptsGone AwayIn Men's PresenceOne's DeedsAbsence

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γράμμα 
Gramma 
Usage: 12

ἐπιστέλλω 
Epistello 
Usage: 3

ἐπιστολή 
Epistole 
Usage: 24