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# you are a letter from Christ
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"you are a letter that Christ has written"
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# the result of our ministry
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"delivered by us.". Because of the work Paul and his companions had done, the world could look at the Corinthians and see how Christ blesses people in this life.
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# It was written not with ink ... on tablets of human hearts
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Paul clarifies that the Corinthians are like a spiritual letter, not like a letter that humans write with physical objects.
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# It was written not with ink but by the Spirit of the living God
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"It was written not with ink but it was written by the Spirit of the living God" or "It is not a letter that people wrote with ink but a letter that the Spirit of the living God wrote"
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# It was not written on tablets of stone, but on tablets of human hearts
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"It is not a letter that people engraved on stone tablets but a letter that the Spirit of the living God wrote on tablets of human hearts"
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# tablets of human hearts
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Paul alludes to God giving the Ten Commandments on stone tablets. This represents the law of Moses in Exodus 24:12.
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