2 Corinthians 3:1-8 ▼

1 Do we begyn to prayse our selues agayne? Or neede we as some other of epistles of recomendation vnto you? or letters of recommendation from you?

2 Ye are our epistle written in our heartes, whiche is vnderstande and read of all men:

3 Forasmuche as ye declare that ye are the epistle of Christ ministred by vs, and written, not with ynke, but with the spirite of the lyuyng God, not in tables of stone, but in fleshly tables of the heart.

4 Such trust haue we through Christe to Godwarde.

5 Not that we are sufficiet of our selues to thynke any thyng as of our selues: but our ablenesse is of God,

6 Which hath made vs able ministers of the newe testament, not of the letter, but of the spirite: For the letter kylleth, but the spirite geueth lyfe.

7 Yf the ministration of death, through the letters figured in stones, was in glorie, so that the chyldren of Israel coulde not beholde the face of Moyses, for the glorie of his countenaunce, whiche glorie is done away:

8 Howe shall not the ministration of the spirite be much more in glorie?