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

Living_Oracles⁽ⁱ⁾ ¹ Must we begin again to commend ourselves? or need we, as some, letters of recommendation to you, or letters of recommendation from you? ² You are out letter, written on our hearts, known and read of all men. ³ For you are plainly declared Christ's letter, ministered by us, written, not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; not on tables of stone, but on fleshly tables of the heart. ⁴ Now we have such confidence through Christ, toward God; ⁵ not that we are competent by ourselves to reckon anything as from ourselves: but our competency is from God, ⁶ who has made us competent ministers of a new institution; not of letter, but of spirit: for the letter kills; but the spirit makes alive.