2 Corinthians 3:1-9 ▼

1 Are we beginning to recommend ourselves again? Unlike some people, we do not need letters of recommendation to you or from you, do we?

2 You are our letter, written in our hearts and known and read by everyone.

3 You are demonstrating that you are the Messiah's letter, produced by our service, written not with ink but with the Spirit of the living God, not on tablets of stone but on tablets of human hearts.

4 Such is the confidence that we have in God through the Messiah.

5 By ourselves we are not qualified to claim that anything comes from us. Rather, our credentials come from God,

6 who has also qualified us to be ministers of a new covenant, which is not written but spiritual, because the written text brings death, but the Spirit gives life.

7 Now if the ministry of death that was inscribed in letters of stone came with such glory that the people of Israel could not gaze on Moses' face (because the glory was fading away from it),

8 will not the Spirit's ministry have even more glory?

9 For if the ministry of condemnation has glory, then the ministry of justification has an overwhelming glory.