Book of Common Prayer

You Yourselves Are Proof To Everyone That God Is Working Through Us

3 Are we^[a] beginning to commend ourselves again? Or we do not have-need of letters of recommendation^[b] to you or from you, like some, do we? ² You are our letter— it having been inscribed in our hearts, it being known and being read by all people, ³ you being made-known^[c] that you are a letter from^[d] Christ having been served by us, having been inscribed not with ink but with the Spirit of the living God, not in tablets made-of-stone but in tablets^[e] which are hearts made-of-flesh.

It Is God Who Makes Us Sufficient As Ministers of His New Covenant

⁴ And we have such^[f] a confidence through Christ toward God— ⁵ not that we are sufficient^[g] from ourselves to count anything as out of ourselves, but our sufficiency is from God, ⁶ Who indeed made us sufficient as ministers of a new covenant, not of the letter but of the Spirit. For the letter kills, but the Spirit gives-life.

And This Ministry Is More Glorious Than That of The Old Covenant

⁷ And if the ministry of death having been engraved in letters on stones came in glory (so that the sons of Israel could not look-intently at the face of Moses because of the glory of his face^[h]— the glory passing-away), ⁸ how shall the ministry of the Spirit not be more in glory! ⁹ For if in the ministry of condemnation there was glory, by much more the ministry of righteousness is abounding in glory.

¹⁸ But^[a] we all with a face having been unveiled, while reflecting^[b] the glory of the Lord as a mirror, are being transformed into the same image from glory^[c] to glory, just-as^[d] from the Lord^[e], the Spirit.