2 Corinthians 3:1-6 DO we again begin to commend ourselves? Or need we, as some, letters of commendation to you, or of commendation from you?

ABU⁽ⁱ⁾ ¹ DO we again begin to commend ourselves? Or need we, as some, letters of commendation to you, or of commendation from you? ² Ye are our letter, written in our hearts, known and read by all men; ³ being made manifest that ye are a letter of Christ ministered by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; not in tablets of stone, but in fleshly tablets of the heart. ⁴ And such confidence have we through Christ, toward God. ⁵ Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think anything as of ourselves; but our sufficiency is of God; ⁶ who also made us sufficient as ministers of a new covenant; not of the letter, but of the spirit; for the letter kills, but the spirit makes alive.