clearly you are an epistle of Christ, (A)ministered by us, written not with ink but by the Spirit of the living God, not (B)on tablets of stone but (C)on tablets of flesh, that is, of the heart.

The Spirit, Not the Letter

And we have such trust through Christ toward God. (D)Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think of anything as being from ourselves, but (E)our sufficiency is from God,

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You show that you are a letter from Christ, the result of our ministry, written not with ink but with the Spirit of the living God,(A) not on tablets of stone(B) but on tablets of human hearts.(C)

Such confidence(D) we have through Christ before God. Not that we are competent in ourselves(E) to claim anything for ourselves, but our competence comes from God.(F)

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