2 Corinthians 2:16–3:6

^16pTo the one we are the aroma of death leading to death, and to the other the aroma of life leading to life. And ^qwho is sufficient for these things? ¹⁷For we are not, as ⁵so many, ^rpeddling ⁶the word of God; but as ^sof sincerity, but as from God, we speak in the sight of God in Christ.

Christ’s Epistle

3Do ^awe begin again to commend ourselves? Or do we need, as some others, ^bepistles of commendation to you or letters of commendation from you? ^2cYou are our epistle written in our hearts, known and read by all men; ³clearly you are an epistle of Christ, ^dministered by us, written not with ink but by the Spirit of the living God, not ^eon tablets of stone but ^fon tablets of flesh, that is, of the heart.

The Spirit, Not the Letter

⁴And we have such trust through Christ toward God. ^5gNot that we are sufficient of ourselves to think of anything as being from ourselves, but ^hour sufficiency is from God, ⁶who also made us sufficient as ⁱministers of ^jthe new covenant, not ^kof the letter but of the ¹Spirit; for ^lthe letter kills, ^mbut the Spirit gives life.