Font Size
2 Corinthians 3:3-5
New Catholic Bible
2 Corinthians 3:3-5
New Catholic Bible
3 And you make it clear that you are a letter from Christ entrusted to our care, a letter written not with ink but with the Spirit of the living God, and written not on tablets of stone[a] but on tablets of the human heart.
4 Such is the complete confidence in God that we have through Christ. 5 Obviously, we are not competent of ourselves to take credit for anything as coming from us. Our competence comes from God
Read full chapterFootnotes
- 2 Corinthians 3:3 Tablets of stone: a reference to the Law given on Sinai (see Ex 24:12).
2 Corinthians 3:3-5
New King James Version
2 Corinthians 3:3-5
New King James Version
3 clearly you are an epistle of Christ, (A)ministered by us, written not with ink but by the Spirit of the living God, not (B)on tablets of stone but (C)on tablets of flesh, that is, of the heart.
The Spirit, Not the Letter
4 And we have such trust through Christ toward God. 5 (D)Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think of anything as being from ourselves, but (E)our sufficiency is from God,
Read full chapter
2 Corinthians 3:3-5
New International Version
2 Corinthians 3:3-5
New International Version
3 You show that you are a letter from Christ, the result of our ministry, written not with ink but with the Spirit of the living God,(A) not on tablets of stone(B) but on tablets of human hearts.(C)
4 Such confidence(D) we have through Christ before God. 5 Not that we are competent in ourselves(E) to claim anything for ourselves, but our competence comes from God.(F)
2 Corinthians 3:3-5
English Standard Version
2 Corinthians 3:3-5
English Standard Version
3 And you show that you are a letter from Christ delivered by us, written not with ink but with the Spirit of (A)the living God, not on (B)tablets of stone but on (C)tablets of (D)human hearts.[a]
4 (E)Such is the confidence that we have through Christ toward God. 5 (F)Not that we are sufficient in ourselves to claim anything as coming from us, but (G)our sufficiency is from God,
Read full chapterFootnotes
- 2 Corinthians 3:3 Greek fleshly hearts
New King James Version (NKJV) 
Scripture taken from the New King James Version®. Copyright © 1982 by Thomas Nelson. Used by permission. All rights reserved.
New International Version (NIV) 
Holy Bible, New International Version®, NIV® Copyright ©1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by Biblica, Inc.® Used by permission. All rights reserved worldwide.
NIV Reverse Interlinear Bible: English to Hebrew and English to Greek. Copyright © 2019 by Zondervan.
English Standard Version (ESV) 
The ESV® Bible (The Holy Bible, English Standard Version®), © 2001 by Crossway, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. ESV Text Edition: 2025.