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

in that ye are known, how that ye are the epistle of Christ, ministered by us and written not with ink, but with the spirit of the living God; not in tables of stone, but in fleshly tables of the heart.

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."