^{1 Ref} Do we seem to be again attempting to put ourselves in the right? or have we need, as some have, of letters of approval to you or from you?

^{2 Ref} You yourselves are our letter, whose writing is in our heart, open for every man's reading and knowledge;

^{3 Ref} For you are clearly a letter of Christ, the fruit of our work, recorded not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; not in stone, but in hearts of flesh.