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Is It Actually in the Bible?
Phrases people quote as Scripture. The real verse, or the honest answer that there is not one.
"Fleshy tables of the heart" (2 Corinthians 3:3) sounds like it's picturing furniture, a heart shaped like a dinner table.
'Table' in the KJV can mean a flat writing tablet, not a piece of furniture, as in the stone tablets of the Law.
2 Corinthians 3:3, in every translation this tool compares.
Paul writes that believers are Christ's letter, "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 Corinthians 3:3). "Tables" here directly parallels the stone tablets Moses received on Sinai: the word means a flat surface for writing or engraving, not a table you sit down to eat at. The image is God writing his law on soft, living hearts instead of hard stone slabs.
This sense survives today only in fossilized phrases like "tables of the Ten Commandments" or "tabulate." Without that context, a modern reader pictures dining furniture instead of an inscribed tablet, which erases Paul's whole stone-versus-flesh contrast.
