1. Do we begin again to commend ourselves? or do we need, as some others, epistles of commendation to you or letters of commendation from you?
2. Ye are our epistle written in our hearts, known and read of all men:
3. Forasmuch as ye are manifestly declared to be the epistle of Christ ministered by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; not in tables of stone, but in fleshy tables of the heart.
4. And such trust we have through the Christ towards God:
5. Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think anything as of ourselves, but our sufficiency is of God,