you are well known to be a letter of Christ, written by us as his ministers, not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God, not in tables of stone, but in fleshy tables of the heart.

who has also qualified us to be ministers of a new covenant, which is not written but spiritual, because the written text brings death, but the Spirit gives life.

For we are writing to you nothing different from what we have written before, or from what indeed you already recognize as truth and will, I trust, recognize as such to the very end;

Ye are our epistle, written in our hearts, which is understood and read of all men;

Seeing then that we have the same spirit of faith, according as it is written - "I believed and therefore have I spoken" - we also believe, and therefore speak.

agreeing to that which is written, "He that gathered much had never the more abundance, and he that gathered little, had nevertheless."

as it is written, "He that dispersed abroad and hath given to the poor, his righteousness remaineth for ever."

But if the ministration of death, written and engraven in stones, was glorious, so that the children of Israel could not stedfastly behold the face of Moses for the glory of his countenance; which glory was to be done away:

I had also written to you to see if you would stand the test and be obedient in every way.