2 Corinthians 3:1-6 ▼

1 Do I begin again to commend my self? or need I, as some others, commendatory letters to you, or from you?

2 you are my epistle, your conversion being writ in, my heart, known and read by all men:

3 which shows you to be the epistle of Christ, written by my ministration, not with ink, but with the spirit of the living God; not on tables of stone, but on living tables of the heart.

4 It is by Christ that I have this confidence in God.

5 not that I am sufficient of myself to effect any thing by the strength of my own reason: but my sufficiency is from God.

6 who also hath enabled me to be a minister of the new covenant, not of the literal sense, but of the spiritual meaning: it is the letter that denounces death, but the spirit gives life.