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1 DO we begin again to commend our selves? Or do we need, as some other people, epistles of commendation concerning us written to you, or that you should write commending us? 2 You are our epistle written in our hearts, well-known and read by all men: 3 For you are known to be the epistle of Christ ministered by us, written not with ink, but with the spirit of the Living God; not on tablets of stone, but on tablets of the living heart. 4 Such is the trust that we have through Christ toward God. 5 Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think anything as of ourselves; but our strength comes from God, 6 Who has made us worthy to be ministers of the new covenant; not of the letter, but the Spirit: for the letter of the law punishes with death, but the Spirit gives life. 7 Now if the ministration of death, as contained in the letter of the law and engraved on stones, was so glorious that the children of Israel could not look at the face of Moses because of the glory of his countenance; which glory was not lasting: 8 Why then shall not the ministration of the Spirit be more glorious? 2 Corinthians 3:1-8, Lamsa Bible. Public domain.
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