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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. 7 now if the law engraven on stone, the letter of whose sanction is death, was delivered with such glory, that the children of Israel could not steadily behold the face of Moses, for the glory of his countenance, tho' it was transient; 8 shall not the ministration of the spirit be more glorious? 2 Corinthians 3:1-8, Mace New Testament. Public domain.
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