1Do we begin again to recommend ourselves, except we need, as some, letters of recommendation unto you, or from you?
2our letter ye are, having been written in our hearts, known and read by all men,
3manifested that ye are a letter of Christ ministered by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God, not in the tablets of stone, but in fleshy tablets of the heart,
4and such trust we have through the Christ toward God,
5not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think anything, as of ourselves, but our sufficiency [is] of God,
6who also made us sufficient [to be] ministrants of a new covenant, not of letter, but of spirit; for the letter doth kill, and the spirit doth make alive.
7and if the ministration of the death, in letters, engraved in stones, came in glory, so that the sons of Israel were not able to look stedfastly to the face of Moses, because of the glory of his face -- which was being made useless,
