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Literal Standard Version
2 Corinthians 3:4
Bible Study Resources
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Such is the confidence we have through Christ before God.
And such trust haue wee through Christ to Godward:
And such trust have we through Christ to God-ward:
Such is the confidence that we have through Christ toward God.
Such is the confidence we have toward God through Christ.
We can say this, because through Christ we feel certain before God.
Such is the confidence and steadfast reliance and absolute trust that we have through Christ toward God.
Such confidence we have through Christ toward God.
And such confidence we have through Christ toward God.
Such confidence before God is ours through Christ.
We are sure about all this. Christ makes us sure in the very presence of God.
Such is the confidence we have through the Messiah toward God.
And such confidence have we through the Christ towards God:
We can say this, because through Christ we feel sure before God.
And such trust haue we through Christ to God:
Such is the trust that we have through Christ toward God.
We say this because we have confidence in God through Christ.
Now we possess such confidence through Christ toward God.
And we have such confidence through Christ toward God;
And such confidence have we through Christ to God-ward:
And this is the certain faith which we have in God through Christ:
Such confidence we have through Messiah toward God;
Such is the confidence that we have in God through Christ.
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And such confidence have we in the Messiah towards God.
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And such confidence have we through Christ to God–ward:
Such confidence we have through Christ toward God;
Such trust have we in God through Christ.
Such is the confidence which we have through Christ in the presence of God;
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And such confidence we have through Christ toward God:
And such trust we have through Christ toward God.
Now we have such confidence in God through Christ.
And we have such trust through Christ toward God.
We are confident of all this because of our great trust in God through Christ.
We can say these things because of our faith in God through Christ.
Such is the confidence that we have through Christ toward God.
But, such confidence as this, have we, through the Christ, towards God.
And such confidence we have, through Christ, towards God.
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It is by Christ that I have this confidence in God.
We couldn't be more sure of ourselves in this—that you, written by Christ himself for God, are our letter of recommendation. We wouldn't think of writing this kind of letter about ourselves. Only God can write such a letter. His letter authorizes us to help carry out this new plan of action. The plan wasn't written out with ink on paper, with pages and pages of legal footnotes, killing your spirit. It's written with Spirit on spirit, his life on our lives!
We can say this proudly because of our never-ending trust in God through Jesus Christ.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
such: 2 Corinthians 2:14, Philippians 1:6
God-ward: Exodus 18:19, 1 Thessalonians 1:8
Reciprocal: Matthew 13:52 - scribe Romans 15:17 - whereof Philippians 4:13 - can
Cross-References
And YHWH God says to the woman, "What [is] this you have done?" And the woman says, "The serpent has caused me to forget, and I eat."
and it has been, in his hearing the words of this oath, that he has blessed himself in his heart, saying, I have peace, though I go on in the stubbornness of my heart—in order to sweep away the watered with the thirsty.
And therefore, thus said YHWH: The bed to where you have gone up, you do not come down from it, for you certainly die"; and Elijah goes on.
And they say to him, "A man has come up to meet us and says to us, Go, return to the king who sent you, and you have said to him, Thus said YHWH: Is it because there is not a God in Israel—you are sending to inquire of Ba‘al-Zebub god of Ekron? Therefore, the bed to where you have gone up, you do not come down from it, for you certainly die."
and speaks to him, "Thus said YHWH: Because that you have sent messengers to inquire of Ba‘al-Zebub god of Ekron—is it because there is not a God in Israel to inquire of His word? Therefore, the bed to where you have gone up—you do not come down from it, for you certainly die."
And Elisha says to him, "Go, say, You certainly do not revive, seeing [that] YHWH has showed me that he surely dies."
He said in his heart, "God has forgotten, || He has hid His face, || He has never seen."
that we may not be over-reached by Satan, for we are not ignorant of his schemes.
and I fear, lest, as the serpent deceived Eve in his subtlety, so your minds may be corrupted from the simplicity that [is] in the Christ;
and Adam was not deceived, but the woman, having been deceived, came into transgression,
Gill's Notes on the Bible
And such trust have we,.... This refers to what he had said in the latter end of the foregoing chapter, and the beginning of this; as that they made manifest the savoury knowledge of God and Christ everywhere, and were the sweet savour of Christ to many souls; were sufficient in some measure, through the grace of Christ, to preach the Gospel sincerely and faithfully, and were attended with success, had many seals of their ministry, and particularly the Corinthians were so many living epistles of commendations of the power and efficacy of their ministry; such confidence and firm persuasion of the truth of grace on your souls, and of our being the happy instruments of it, we have
through Christ, the grace of Christ,
to God-ward: who is the object of our confidence and hope, and the ground thereof.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
And such trust have we - Such confidence have we that we are appointed by God, and that he accepts our work. Such evidence have we in the success of our labors; such irrefragable proof that God blesses us; that we have trust, or confidence, that we are sent by God, and are owned by him in our ministry. His confidence did not rest on letters of introduction from people, but in the evidence of the divine presence, and the divine acceptance of his work.
Through Christ - By the agency of Christ. Paul had no success which he did not trace to him; he had no joy of which he was not the source; he had no confidence, or trust in God of which Christ was not the author; he had no hope of success in his ministry which did not depend on him.
To God-ward - Toward God; in regard to God (πρὸς τὸν Θεόν pros ton Theon). Our confidence relates to God. It is confidence that he has appointed us, and sent us forth; and confidence that he will still continue to own and to bless us.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse 2 Corinthians 3:4. Such trust have we — We have the fullest conviction that God has thus accredited our ministry; and that ye are thus converted unto him, and are monuments of his mercy, and proofs of the truth of our ministry.
