You show that you are a letter from Christ, the result of our ministry, written not with ink but with the Spirit of the living God,(A) not on tablets of stone(B) but on tablets of human hearts.(C)

Such confidence(D) we have through Christ before God. Not that we are competent in ourselves(E) to claim anything for ourselves, but our competence comes from God.(F) He has made us competent as ministers of a new covenant(G)—not of the letter(H) but of the Spirit; for the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.(I)

The Greater Glory of the New Covenant

Now if the ministry that brought death,(J) which was engraved in letters on stone, came with glory, so that the Israelites could not look steadily at the face of Moses because of its glory,(K) transitory though it was,

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