Ink

Ink turns up only four times in Scripture, and each time it sits beside something more lasting. Baruch tells the officials, “I wrote them with ink in the book,” taking down Jeremiah’s words as they were spoken. John, near the end of his life, says he would rather not use paper and ink but come and speak face to face. Paul goes further and calls the believers a letter written “not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God.” Read 2 Corinthians 3:3 first: it shows that the message mattered more than the writing materials.

4 verses

Jeremiah

Jeremiah 36:18

Then Baruch answered them, He pronounced all these words unto me with his mouth, and I wrote them with ink in the book.

2 Corinthians

2 Corinthians 3:3

Forasmuch as 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 in tables of stone, but in fleshy tables of the heart.

2 John

2 John 1:12

Having many things to write unto you, I would not write with paper and ink: but I trust to come unto you, and speak face to face, that our joy may be full.

3 John

3 John 1:13

I had many things to write, but I will not with ink and pen write unto thee:

Based on Nave's Topical Bible by Orville J. Nave (1896). Public domain. KJV scripture text, public domain.