2 Corinthians 2:16–3:6

¹⁶To the one indeed the odour of death unto death: but to the others the odour of life unto life. And for these things who is so sufficient?

¹⁷For we are not as many, adulterating the word of God: but with sincerity: but as from God, before God, in Christ we speak.

Chapter 3

Do we begin again to commend ourselves? Or do we need (as some do) epistles of commendation to you, or from you?

²You are our epistle, written in our hearts, which is known and read by all men:

³Being manifested, that you are the epistle of Christ, ministered by us, and written: not with ink but with the Spirit of the living God: not in tables of stone but in the fleshly tables of the heart.

⁴And such confidence we have, through Christ, towards God.

⁵Not that we are sufficient to think any thing of ourselves, as of ourselves: but our sufficiency is from God.

⁶Who also hath made us fit ministers of the new testament, not in the letter but in the spirit. For the letter killeth: but the spirit quickeneth.