2 Corintios 3:2

2 La única carta de recomendación que necesitamos son ustedes mismos. Sus vidas son una carta escrita en nuestro
corazón; todos pueden leerla y reconocer el buen trabajo que hicimos entre ustedes.

2 Corintios 3:2 Meaning and Commentary

2 Corinthians 3:2

Ye are our epistle
Here a reason is given why they stood in no need of letters of commendation, to or from the church at Corinth, because that church was their living epistle, and which was much preferable to any written one. The apostle calls them their epistle in the same sense, as they are said to be his "work in the Lord, and the seal of his apostleship", ( 1 Corinthians 9:1 1 Corinthians 9:2 ) they were so as persons regenerated by the Spirit and grace of God, in whose conversion he was an instrument; now it was the work of conversion in them, which was the epistle said to be

written in our hearts;
some think it should be read, "in your hearts"; and so the Ethiopic version reads it; and it looks as if it should be so read, from the following verse, and from the nature of the thing itself; for the conversion of the Corinthians was not written in the heart of the apostle, but in their own; and this was so very notorious and remarkable, that it was

known and read of all men;
everyone could read, and was obliged to acknowledge the handwriting; it was so clear a case, what hand the apostle, as an instrument, had in the turning of these persons from idols to serve the living God; and which was so full a proof of the divinity, efficacy, truth, and sincerity of his doctrine, that he needed no letters from any to recommend him.

2 Corintios 3:2 In-Context

1 ¿Otra vez comenzamos a elogiarnos a nosotros mismos? ¿Acaso somos como otros, que necesitan llevarles cartas de recomendación o que les piden que se escriban tales cartas en nombre de ellos? ¡Por supuesto que no!

2 La única carta de recomendación que necesitamos son ustedes mismos. Sus vidas son una carta escrita en nuestro
corazón; todos pueden leerla y reconocer el buen trabajo que hicimos entre ustedes.

3 Es evidente que son una carta de Cristo que muestra el resultado de nuestro ministerio entre ustedes. Esta «carta» no está escrita con pluma y tinta, sino con el Espíritu del Dios viviente. No está tallada en tablas de piedra, sino en corazones humanos.

4 Estamos seguros de todo esto debido a la gran confianza que tenemos en Dios por medio de Cristo.

5 No es que pensemos que estamos capacitados para hacer algo por nuestra propia cuenta. Nuestra aptitud proviene de Dios.