Who is qualified to tell about Christ? ¹⁷At least we don’t go around selling an impure word of God like many others. The opposite is true. As Christ’s spokesmen and in God’s presence, we speak the pure message that comes from God.

3RD CHAPTER

The Ministry That Comes from Christ Is Greater Than Moses’ Ministry

¹Do we have to show you our qualifications again? Do we, like some people, need letters that recommend us to you or letters from you that recommend us to others? ²You’re our letter of recommendation written in our hearts that everyone knows and reads. ³It’s clear that you are Christ’s letter, written as a result of our ministry. You are a letter written not with ink but with the Spirit of the living God, a letter written not on tablets of stone but on tablets of human hearts.

⁴Christ gives us confidence about you in God’s presence. ⁵By ourselves we are not qualified in any way to claim that we can do anything. Rather, God makes us qualified. ⁶He has also qualified us to be ministers of a new promise,^aa spiritual promise, not a written one. Clearly, what was written brings death, but the Spirit brings life.

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Footnotes

a 3:6 Or “covenant.”