1Do we seem to be again attempting to put ourselves in the right? or have we need, as some have, of letters of approval to you or from you?
2You yourselves are our letter, whose writing is in our heart, open for every man's reading and knowledge;
3For you are clearly a letter of Christ, the fruit of our work, recorded not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; not in stone, but in hearts of flesh.
4And this is the certain faith which we have in God through Christ:
5Not as if we were able by ourselves to do anything for which we might take the credit; but our power comes from God;
6Who has made us able to be servants of a new agreement; not of the letter, but of the Spirit: for the letter gives death, but the Spirit gives life.
7For if the operation of the law, giving death, recorded in letters on stone, came with glory, so that the eyes of the children of Israel had to be turned away from the face of Moses because of its glory, a glory which was only for a time:
