2 Corinthians 3:4 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁴And such trust have we through Christ to God-ward:

2 Corinthians 3:4 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Ephesians 3:12
In whom we have boldness and access with confidence by the faith of him.
Philippians 1:6
Being confident of this very thing, that he which hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ:
Exodus 18:19
Hearken now unto my voice, I will give thee counsel, and God shall be with thee: Be thou for the people to God-ward, that thou mayest bring the causes unto God:
1 Thessalonians 1:8
For from you sounded out the word of the Lord not only in Macedonia and Achaia, but also in every place your faith to God-ward is spread abroad; so that we need not to speak any thing.
2 Corinthians 2:14
Now thanks be unto God, which always causeth us to triumph in Christ, and maketh manifest the savour of his knowledge by us in every place.

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 1-5)

In these verses, I. The apostle makes an apology for seeming to commend himself. He thought it convenient to protest his sincerity to them, because there were some at Corinth who endeavoured to blast his reputation; yet he was not desirous of vain-glory. And he tells them, 1. That he neither needed nor desired any verbal commendation to them, nor letters testimonial from them, as some others did,…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 4)

4. And--Greek, “But.” “Such confidence, however (namely, of our ‘sufficiency,’ 2Co 3:5, 6; 2Co 2:16--to which he reverts after the parenthesis--as ministers of the New Testament, ‘not hinting,’ 2Co 4:1), we have through Christ (not through ourselves, compare 2Co 3:18) toward God” (that is, in our relation to God and His work, the ministry committed by Him to us, for which we must render an account…