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

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

^{3 Ref} 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.