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Are we beginning again to commend ourselves? Or do we need, as do some, letters of commendation to you or from you?
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You are our letter, written in our hearts, known and read by all men;
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being revealed that you are a letter of Messiah, ministered by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; not in tablets of stone, but in tablets that are hearts of flesh.
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Such confidence we have through Messiah toward God;
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not that we are sufficient of ourselves, to account anything as from ourselves; but our sufficiency is from God;
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who also made us sufficient as servants of a new covenant; not of the letter, but of the Spirit. For the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.