2 Corinthians 3:1-9 ▼

1 Begin we again to recommend ourselves or need we not, as some; recommendatory epistles to you, or recommendatory from you?

2 Ye are our epistle written in our hearts, known and acknowledged by all men:

3 Made manifest that ye are the epistle of Christ served by us, not written with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; not in tables made of stone, but in fleshly tables of the heart.

4 And we have such confidence through Christ to God:

5 Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to reckon anything as of ourselves; but our sufficiency of God;

6 Who rendered as fitting servants of the new covenant; not of the letter, but of the Spirit: for the letter kills, and the Spirit makes alive.

7 And if the service of death, in letters imprinted in stones, was in glory, so that the sons of Israel could not look intently to the face of Moses for the glory of his face; being left unemployed.

8 How shall not rather the service of the Spirit be in glory?

9 For if the service of condemnation glory, much more the service of justice abounds in glory.