Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

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

⁴ And we have such^[a] a confidence through Christ toward God— ⁵ not that we are sufficient^[b] 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^[c]— 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. ¹⁰ For indeed the [ministry of the letter]^[d] having been glorified has not^[e] been glorified in this respect— because of the surpassing glory! ¹¹ For if the [ministry of the letter] passing-away was with glory, by much more the [ministry of the Spirit] remaining is in glory.