2 Corinthians 3:1-6 "Are we beginning again to commend ourselves to you? Do we only want, like certain persons, commendatory letters to you, or letters of recommendation from you?

Thomson⁽ⁱ⁾ ¹ "Are we beginning again to commend ourselves to you? Do we only want, like certain persons, commendatory letters to you, or letters of recommendation from you? ² You yourselves are our letter. It hath been written in our hearts; it is known and read by all men. ³ You are shewn publickly because you are the letter of Christ which we make use of. It is 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 Such is the confidence which we have through Christ in regard to God; ⁵ not that we are of ourselves sufficient to reckon any thing as proceeding from ourselves; but our sufficiency is from God, ⁶ who hath qualified us to be ministers of a new covenant; not of letter but of spirit; for the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life.