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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?

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You yourselves are our letter, whose writing is in our heart, open for every man's reading and knowledge

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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.

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And this is the certain faith which we have in God through Christ:

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Not as if we were able by ourselves to do anything for which we might take the credit but our power comes from God

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Who has made us able to be servants of a new agreement not of the letter, but of the Spirit: for the letter gives death, but the Spirit gives life.