1. Do we begin again to commend ourselves? or need we, as some others, epistles of commendation to you, or letters of commendation from you?
2. You are our epistle written in our hearts, known and read of all men:
3. Since you 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 fleshly tables of the heart.
4. And such trust have we through Christ toward God:
5. Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think anything as of ourselves; but our sufficiency is of God;