⁹ And ^(A)the great dragon was thrown down, ^(B)that ancient serpent, who is called the devil and Satan, ^(C)the deceiver of the whole world—^(D)he was thrown down to the earth, and his angels were thrown down with him. ¹⁰ And I heard a loud voice in heaven, saying, “Now ^(E)the salvation and the power and the kingdom of our God and the authority of his Christ have come, for the accuser of our brothers^[a] has been thrown down, ^(F)who accuses them day and night before our God. ¹¹ And ^(G)they have conquered him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony, for ^(H)they loved not their lives ^(I)even unto death.

^2 (A)You yourselves are our letter of recommendation, written on our^[a] hearts, to be known and read by all. ³ And you show that you are a letter from Christ delivered by us, written not with ink but with the Spirit of ^(B)the living God, not on ^(C)tablets of stone but on ^(D)tablets of ^(E)human hearts.^[b]

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

⁷ Now if ^(M)the ministry of death, carved in letters on stone, came with such glory ^(N)that the Israelites could not gaze at Moses' face because of its glory, which was being brought to an end,