Such is the (A)confidence we have toward God through Christ. Not that we are adequate in ourselves so as to consider anything as having come from ourselves, but (B)our adequacy is from God, who also made us adequate as (C)servants of a (D)new covenant, not of (E)the letter but of the Spirit; for the letter kills, but (F)the Spirit gives life.

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The Spirit, Not the Letter

And we have such trust through Christ toward God. (A)Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think of anything as being from ourselves, but (B)our sufficiency is from God, who also made us sufficient as (C)ministers of (D)the new covenant, not (E)of the letter but of the [a]Spirit; for (F)the letter kills, (G)but the Spirit gives life.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Corinthians 3:6 Or spirit