1 Are we to begin to recommend ourselves again? Or do we need, as some, letters of recommendation to you, or from you?
2 You are our letter, having been written in our hearts, known and read by all men,
3 making it obvious that you are a letter of Messiah, served by us, written not with ink but by the Spirit of the living Elohim, not on tablets of stone but on fleshly tablets of the heart.
4 And such trust we have toward Elohim, through the Messiah.
5 Not that we are competent in ourselves to reckon any matter as from ourselves, but our competence is from Elohim,
6 who also made us competent as servants of a renewed covenant, not of the letter but of the Spirit, for the letter kills but the Spirit gives life.