[1] Do we begin again to commend ourselves? need we, as some others, epistles of commendation to or letters of commendation from [2] epistle written in hearts, known and read of all men: [3] Forasmuch as ye are manifestly declared to the epistle of Christ ministered by written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; not in tables of stone, but in fleshy tables of the heart. [4] And such trust have we through Christ to God-ward: [5] Not that sufficient of ourselves to think any thing as of ourselves; but sufficiency is of God; [6] Who also able ministers of the new testament; not of the letter, but of the spirit: for the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life.