2 Corinthians 3:4-9

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

⁴ And such confidence we have, through Christ, towards God.

⁵ Not that we are sufficient to think any thing of ourselves, as of ourselves: but our sufficiency is from God.

⁶ Who also hath made us fit ministers of the new testament, not in the letter, but in the spirit. For the letter killeth, but the spirit quickeneth.

⁷ Now if the ministration of death, engraven with letters upon stones, was glorious; so that the children of Israel could not steadfastly behold the face of Moses, for the glory of his countenance, which is made void:

⁸ How shall not the ministration of the spirit be rather in glory?

⁹ For if the ministration of condemnation be glory, much more the ministration of justice aboundeth in glory.