- Do we begin again to commend ourselves? or need we, as some others, epistles of commendation to you, or letters of commendation from you?
- Ye are our epistle written in our hearts, known and read of all men:
- 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.
- And such trust have we through Christ to God-ward:
- Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think any thing as of ourselves; but our sufficiency is of God;
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- Are we beginning to commend ourselves again? Or do we need, as some, letters of commendation to you or from you?
- You are our letter, written in our hearts, known and read by all men;
- being manifested that you are a letter of Christ, cared for by us, written not with ink but with the Spirit of the living God, not on tablets of stone but on tablets of human hearts.
- Such confidence we have through Christ toward God.
- Not that we are adequate in ourselves to consider anything as coming from ourselves, but our adequacy is from God,
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