2 Corinthians 2:16-3:6

21st Century King James Version

¹⁶ to the one we are the savor of death unto death, and to the other the savor of life unto life. And who is sufficient for these things?

¹⁷ For we are not as many who corrupt the Word of God; but as out of sincerity, but as from God, in the sight of God speak we in Christ.

3 Do we begin again to commend ourselves? Or need we, as some others, epistles of commendation to you, or letters of commendation from you?

² Ye are our epistle written in our hearts, known and read by all men;

³ for 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 on tablets of stone but in fleshy tablets of the heart.

⁴ And such is the trust we have through Christ to Godward.

⁵ Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think of anything as coming from ourselves, but our sufficiency is from God,

⁶ who also hath made us able ministers of the new testament — not of the letter, but of the Spirit; for the letter killeth, but the Spirit giveth life.