'Letters' in the Bible

and requested letters from him to the synagogues in Damascus, so that if he found any who belonged to the Way, either men or women, he could bring them as prisoners to Jerusalem.

as both the high priest and the whole council of elders can testify about me. From them I also received letters to the brothers in Damascus, and I was on my way to make arrests there and bring the prisoners to Jerusalem to be punished.

They replied, "We have received no letters from Judea about you, nor have any of the brothers come from there and reported or said anything bad about you.

Then, when I arrive, I will send those whom you approve with letters of explanation to carry your gift to Jerusalem.

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?

But if the ministry that produced death -- carved in letters on stone tablets -- came with glory, so that the Israelites could not keep their eyes fixed on the face of Moses because of the glory of his face (a glory which was made ineffective),

I do not want to seem as though I am trying to terrify you with my letters,

because some say, "His letters are weighty and forceful, but his physical presence is weak and his speech is of no account."

Let such a person consider this: What we say by letters when we are absent, we also are in actions when we are present.

See what big letters I make as I write to you with my own hand!

speaking of these things in all his letters. Some things in these letters are hard to understand, things the ignorant and unstable twist to their own destruction, as they also do to the rest of the scriptures.