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,