2 Corinthians 3:1-6

Ministers of the New Covenant

1 aAre we beginning to commend ourselves again? Or do we need, bas some do, cletters of recommendation to you, or from you? 2 dYou yourselves are our letter of recommendation, written on our
Some manuscripts your
hearts, to be known and read by all.
3And you show that you are a letter from Christ delivered by us, written not with ink but with the Spirit of fthe living God, not on gtablets of stone but on htablets of ihuman hearts.
Greek fleshly hearts


4 kSuch is the confidence that we have through Christ toward God. 5 lNot that we are sufficient in ourselves to claim anything as coming from us, but mour sufficiency is from God, 6who has made us sufficient to be nministers of oa new covenant, not of pthe letter but of the Spirit. For the letter kills, but qthe Spirit gives life.

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