3:1 我们岂是又举荐自己吗。岂像别人，用人的荐信给你们，或用你们的荐信给人吗。
3:2 你们就是我们的荐信，写在我们心里，被众人所知道所念诵的。
3:3 你们明显是基督的信，藉着我们修成的。不是用墨写的，乃是用永生神的灵写的。不是写在石版上，乃是写在心版上。
3:4 我们因基督所以在神面前才有这样的信心，
3:5 并不是我们凭自己能承担什么事，我们所能承担的，乃是出于神。
3:6 他叫我们能承当这新约的执事。不是凭着字句，乃是凭着精意。因为那字句是叫人死，精意是叫人活。（精意或作圣灵）。
1Are we beginning to commend ourselves again? Or do we need, like some people, letters of recommendation to you or from you?
2You yourselves are our letter, written on our hearts, known and read by everybody.
3You 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, not on tablets of stone but on tablets of human hearts.
4Such confidence as this is ours through Christ before God.
5Not that we are competent in ourselves to claim anything for ourselves, but our competence comes from God.
6He has made us competent as ministers of a new covenant–not of the letter but of the Spirit; for the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.