1. Do we begin again to commend ourselves? Or do we need, as some others, letters of commendation to you, or letters of commendation from you?
2. You are our letter written in our hearts, known and read by all men.
3. For you are prominently declared to be the letter of Christ, prepared by us, written not with ink but with the Spirit of the living God, not on tablets of stone but on human tablets of the heart.
4. We have such trust through Christ toward God,
5. not that we are sufficient in ourselves to take credit for anything of ourselves, but our sufficiency is from God,