⁵ Not that we are competent in ourselves^(A) to claim anything for ourselves, but our competence comes from God.^{(B) 6} He has made us competent as ministers of a new covenant^(C)—not of the letter^(D) but of the Spirit; for the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.^(E)

The Greater Glory of the New Covenant

⁷ Now if the ministry that brought death,^(F) 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,^(G) transitory though it was,