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.
6. And he has made us suitable ministers of the New Testament, not in the letter, but in the Spirit. For the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.