1 Must we begin again to commend ourselves? Or are we in need (as some are) of epistles of commendation for you, or from you?
2 You are our Epistle, written in our hearts, which is known and read by all men.
3 It has been made manifest that you are the Epistle of Christ, ministered by us, and written down, not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God, and not on tablets of stone, but on the fleshly tablets of the heart.
4 And we have such faith, through Christ, toward God.
5 It is not that we are adequate to think anything of ourselves, as if anything was from us. But our adequacy is from God.