2 Corinthians 3:3 ASV

¹  Are we beginning again to commend ourselves? or need we, as do some, epistles of commendation to you or from you?

²  Ye are our epistle, written in our hearts, known and read of all men;

³  being made manifest that ye are an epistle of Christ, ministered by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; not in tables of stone, but in tables `that are' hearts of flesh.

⁴  And such confidence have we through Christ to God-ward:

⁵  not that we are sufficient of ourselves, to account anything as from ourselves; but our sufficiency is from God;