2 Corinthiens 3:4

4 Cette assurance-là, nous l'avons par Christ auprès de Dieu.

2 Corinthiens 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 Corinthiens 3:4 In-Context

2 C'est vous qui êtes notre lettre, écrite dans nos coeurs, connue et lue de tous les hommes.

3 Vous êtes manifestement une lettre de Christ, écrite, par notre ministère, non avec de l'encre, mais avec l'Esprit du Dieu vivant, non sur des tables de pierre, mais sur des tables de chair, sur les coeurs.

4 Cette assurance-là, nous l'avons par Christ auprès de Dieu.

5 Ce n'est pas à dire que nous soyons par nous-mêmes capables de concevoir quelque chose comme venant de nous-mêmes. Notre capacité, au contraire, vient de Dieu.

6 Il nous a aussi rendus capables d'être ministres d'une nouvelle alliance, non de la lettre, mais de l'esprit; car la lettre tue, mais l'esprit vivifie.