2 Corinthians 3:1-6 ▼

1 Do 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?

2 You're our letter of recommendation written in our hearts that everyone knows and reads.

3 It'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.

4 Christ gives us confidence about you in God's presence.

5 By ourselves we are not qualified in any way to claim that we can do anything. Rather, God makes us qualified.

6 He has also qualified us to be ministers of a new promise, a spiritual promise, not a written one. Clearly, what was written brings death, but the Spirit brings life.