1. Are we beginning to commend ourselves again? Or do we need, like some, letters of recommendation to you or from you?
2. You yourselves are our letter, written on our hearts, recognized and read by everyone.
3. It is clear that you are Christ’s letter, produced by us, not written with ink but with the Spirit of the living God — not on stone tablets but on tablets that are hearts of flesh.
4. We have this kind of confidence toward God through Christ.
5. It is not that we are competent in ourselves to consider anything as coming from ourselves, but our competence is from God.
6. He has made us competent to be ministers of a new covenant, not of the letter, but of the Spirit. For the letter kills, but the Spirit produces life.