¹⁸ And he gave to Moses, when he had finished speaking with him on Mount Sinai, the ^(A)two tablets of the testimony, tablets of stone, written with ^(B)the finger of God.

^16 (A)The tablets were the work of God, and the writing was the writing of God, engraved on the tablets.

^33 (A)For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, declares the Lord: ^(B)I will put my law within them, and I will write it ^(C)on their hearts. ^(D)And I will be their God, and they shall be my people.

³ And you show that you are a letter from Christ delivered by us, written not with ink but with the Spirit of ^(A)the living God, not on ^(B)tablets of stone but on ^(C)tablets of ^(D)human hearts.^[a]

^4 (E)Such is the confidence that we have through Christ toward God. ^5 (F)Not that we are sufficient in ourselves to claim anything as coming from us, but ^(G)our sufficiency is from God, ⁶ who has made us sufficient to be ^(H)ministers of ^(I)a new covenant, not of ^(J)the letter but of the Spirit. For the letter kills, but ^(K)the Spirit gives life.

⁷ Now if ^(L)the ministry of death, carved in letters on stone, came with such glory ^(M)that the Israelites could not gaze at Moses' face because of its glory, which was being brought to an end, ⁸ will not the ministry of the Spirit have even more glory? ⁹ For if there was glory in ^(N)the ministry of condemnation, ^(O)the ministry of righteousness must far exceed it in glory.