3 You show that you are Christ’s letter,t deliveredB by us, not written with ink but with the Spirit of the living Godu—not on tablets of stonev but on tablets of human hearts.C,w

PAUL’S COMPETENCE

4 Such is the confidence we have through Christ before God. 5 It is not that we are competent inD ourselves to claim anything as coming from ourselves, but our adequacy is from God.x 6 He has made us competent to be ministers of a new covenant,y not of the letter,z but of the Spirit. For the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.