(A)You are our epistle written in our hearts, known and read by all men; clearly you are an epistle of Christ, (B)ministered by us, written not with ink but by the Spirit of the living God, not (C)on tablets of stone but (D)on tablets of flesh, that is, of the heart.

The Spirit, Not the Letter

And we have such trust through Christ toward God. (E)Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think of anything as being from ourselves, but (F)our sufficiency is from God, who also made us sufficient as (G)ministers of (H)the new covenant, not (I)of the letter but of the [a]Spirit; for (J)the letter kills, (K)but the Spirit gives life.

Glory of the New Covenant

But if (L)the ministry of death, (M)written and engraved on stones, was glorious, (N)so that the children of Israel could not look steadily at the face of Moses because of the glory of his countenance, which glory was passing away, how will (O)the ministry of the Spirit not be more glorious?

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Corinthians 3:6 Or spirit

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