Every time there was a surgery that failed, I was left with a little less flesh and bone.

being revealed that you are a letter of Christ, served by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God not in tablets of stone, but in tablets that are hearts of flesh.

Forasmuch as ye are manifestly declared to be the epistle of Christ ministered by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God not in tables of stone, but in fleshy tables of the heart.