3 Are we starting to recommend ourselves again? Or do we need, like some men, letters of recommendation to you or from you?+ 2 You yourselves are our letter,+ inscribed on our hearts and known and being read by all mankind. 3 For you are shown to be a letter of Christ written by us as ministers,+ inscribed not with ink but with the spirit of a living God, not on stone tablets+ but on fleshly tablets, on hearts.+
4 We have this sort of confidence toward God through the Christ. 5 Not that we of ourselves are adequately qualified to consider that anything comes from us, but our being adequately qualified comes from God,+