(A)Such is the confidence that we have through Christ toward God. (B)Not that we are sufficient in ourselves to claim anything as coming from us, but (C)our sufficiency is from God, who has made us sufficient to be (D)ministers of (E)a new covenant, not of (F)the letter but of the Spirit. For the letter kills, but (G)the Spirit gives life.

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Paul’s Competence

Such is the confidence we have through Christ before God. It is not that we are competent in[a] ourselves to claim anything as coming from ourselves, but our adequacy is from God.(A) He has made us competent to be ministers of a new covenant,(B) not of the letter,(C) but of the Spirit. For the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.

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Footnotes

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