2 Corinthians 2:16–3:6

^16ato the one an aroma from death to death, to the other an aroma from life to life. And who is ^badequate for these things?

¹⁷For we are not like many, ^1apeddling the word of God, but ^bas from sincerity, but as from God, we speak in Christ ^cin the sight of God.

Chapter 3

Ministers of a New Covenant

¹Are we beginning to ^acommend ourselves again? Or do we need, as some, ^bletters of commendation to you or from you?

^2aYou are our letter, written in our hearts, known and read by all men;

³being manifested that you are a letter of Christ, ^1acared for by us, written not with ink but with the Spirit of ^bthe living God, not on ^ctablets of stone but on ^dtablets of ^2ehuman hearts.

⁴Such ^aconfidence we have through Christ toward God.

⁵Not that we are adequate in ourselves to consider anything as coming from ourselves, but ^aour adequacy is from God,

⁶who also made us adequate as ^aservants of a ^bnew covenant, not of ^cthe letter but of the Spirit; for the letter kills, but ^dthe Spirit gives life.