2 Corinthians 3:4

4 And such is the trust we have through Christ to Godward.

2 Corinthians 3:4 Meaning and Commentary

2 Corinthians 3:4

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.

2 Corinthians 3:4 In-Context

2 Ye are our epistle written in our hearts, known and read by all men;

3 for ye are manifestly declared to be the epistle of Christ ministered by us, written not with ink but with the Spirit of the living God, not on tablets of stone but in fleshy tablets of the heart.

4 And such is the trust we have through Christ to Godward.

5 Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think of anything as coming from ourselves, but our sufficiency is from God,

6 who also hath made us able ministers of the new testament -- not of the letter, but of the Spirit; for the letter killeth, but the Spirit giveth life.