2 Corinthians 3:3–11

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.

⁷But if the ^aministry of death, ^bin letters engraved on stones, came ¹with glory, ^cso that the sons of Israel could not look intently at the face of Moses because of the glory of his face, fading as it was,

⁸how will the ministry of the Spirit fail to be even more with glory?

⁹For if ^athe ministry of condemnation has glory, much more does the ^bministry of righteousness abound in glory.

¹⁰For indeed what had glory, in this case has no glory because of the glory that surpasses it.

¹¹For if that which fades away was ¹with glory, much more that which remains is in glory.