¹⁶to the one, indeed, a fragrance of death to death, and to the other, a fragrance of life to life; and for these things who is sufficient? ¹⁷for we are not as the many, adulterating the word of God, but as of sincerity—but as of God; in the presence of God, in Christ we do speak.

Chapter 3

¹Do we begin again to recommend ourselves, except we need, as some, letters of recommendation unto you, or from you? ²our letter ye are, having been written in our hearts, known and read by all men, ³manifested that ye are a letter of Christ ministered by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God, not in the tablets of stone, but in fleshy tablets of the heart, ⁴and such trust we have through the Christ toward God, ⁵not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think anything, as of ourselves, but our sufficiency is of God.

⁶Who also made us sufficient to be ministrants of a new covenant, not of letter, but of spirit; for the letter doth kill, and the spirit doth make alive.

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