³manifested that ye are a letter of Christ ministered by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God, not in the tablets of stone, but in fleshy tablets of the heart, ⁴and such trust we have through the Christ toward God, ⁵not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think anything, as of ourselves, but our sufficiency is of God.

⁶Who also made us sufficient to be ministrants of a new covenant, not of letter, but of spirit; for the letter doth kill, and the spirit doth make alive. ⁷and if the ministration of the death, in letters, engraved in stones, came in glory, so that the sons of Israel were not able to look stedfastly to the face of Moses, because of the glory of his face—which was being made useless, ⁸how shall the ministration of the Spirit not be more in glory? ⁹for if the ministration of the condemnation is glory, much more doth the ministration of the righteousness abound in glory; ¹⁰for also even that which hath been glorious, hath not been glorious—in this respect, because of the superior glory; ¹¹for if that which is being made useless is through glory, much more that which is remaining is in glory.

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