1. Are we beginning again to commend ourselves? Or do we need, as do some, letters of commendation to you or from you?
2. You are our letter, written in our hearts, known and read by all men;
3. being revealed that you are a letter of Christ, served by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; not in tablets of stone, but in tablets that are hearts of flesh.
4. Such confidence we have through Christ toward God;
5. not that we are sufficient of ourselves, to account anything as from ourselves; but our sufficiency is from God;