1 Are we beginning to praise ourselves again? Some people need letters that speak well of them. Do we need those kinds of letters, either to you or from you?
2 You yourselves are our letter. You are written on our hearts. Everyone knows you and reads you.
3 You make it clear that you are a letter from Christ. You are the result of our work for God. You are a letter written not with ink but with the Spirit of the living God. You are a letter written not on tablets made out of stone but on human hearts.
4 Through Christ, we can be sure of this because of our faith in God's power.
5 In ourselves we are not able to claim anything for ourselves. The power to do what we do comes from God.