1 Are we beginning to commend ourselves again? Or do we, like some, need letters of recommendation to you or from you?
2 You are our letter, inscribed on our hearts, known and read by all people,
3 revealing that you are a letter of Christ, delivered by us, inscribed not with ink but with the Spirit of the living God, not on stone tablets but on tablets of human hearts.
4 Now we possess such confidence through Christ toward God.
5 Not that we are adequate in ourselves to consider anything as from ourselves, but our adequacy is from God,