631. You don't need anything to tell you you're worthy

You don’t need anything to tell you you’re worthy – 2 Corinthians 3:1-3, Romans 2:14-16, 2 Corinthians 3:4-5

2 Corinthians 3:1-3

3 Do we begin again to commend (represent as worthy) ourselves? or need we, as some others, epistles of commendation (commendatory letters) to you, or letters of commendation from you?

² Ye are our epistle written in our hearts, known and read of all men:

³ Forasmuch as ye are manifestly declared (manifested: made visible) to be the epistle (what is sent to anyones home) of Christ ministered by us, written not with ink, but with (resting within) the Spirit of the living God; not in (resting within) tables of stone, but in fleshy tables of the heart.

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

⁵ Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think any thing as of ourselves; but our sufficiency (ability, fitness) is of (out from the origin) God;

Romans 2:14-16

¹⁴ For when the Gentiles, which have not the law, do by nature the things contained in the law, these, having not the law, are a law unto themselves:

¹⁵ Which shew the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience also bearing witness, and their thoughts the mean while accusing or else excusing one another;)

¹⁶ In the day when God shall judge the secrets of men by Jesus Christ according to my gospel.

2 Corinthians 3:4-5

⁴ And such trust have we through (the) Christ to God-ward (toward God):

⁵ Not that we are sufficient (coming to) of (from) ourselves to think (reckon) any thing as of ourselves; but our sufficiency (ability, fitness) is of God;

You don’t need anything to tell you you’re worthy