^{1 Ref} Do we begin again to commend ourselves? or need we, as some others, epistles of commendation to you, or letters of commendation from you?

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

^{3 Ref} Forasmuch as ye are manifestly declared to be the 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 fleshy tables of the heart.