who has become a priest not by a legal regulation about physical descent but by the power of an indestructible life.

For we know that the law is spiritual – but I am unspiritual, sold into slavery to sin.

So, brothers and sisters, I could not speak to you as spiritual people, but instead as people of the flesh, as infants in Christ.

revealing that you are a letter of Christ, delivered by us, written not with ink but by the Spirit of the living God, not on stone tablets but on tablets of human hearts.