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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?
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You are our epistle written in our hearts, known and read by all men;
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clearly you are an epistle of Christ, ministered by us, written not with ink but by the Spirit of the living God, not on tablets of stone but on tablets of flesh, that is, of the heart.
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And we have such trust through Christ toward God.
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Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think of anything as being from ourselves, but our sufficiency is from God,
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who also made us sufficient as ministers of the new covenant, not of the letter but of the Spirit; for the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.