² If to others I am not an apostle, yet at least I am to you; for you are the seal of my apostleship in the Lord.

²⁷ Don't work for the food which perishes, but for the food which remains to eternal life, which the Son of Man will give to you. For God the Father has sealed him."

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

² You are our letter, written in our hearts, known and read by all men;

³ being revealed that you are a letter of Christ, 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.

¹² Truly the signs of an apostle were worked among you in all patience, in signs and wonders and mighty works.