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2 Corinthians 3:1-8

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1 Are we starting to commend ourselves again? We don't need letters of introduction to you or from you like other people, do we?
1 Are we beginning to commend ourselves again? Or do we need, like some people, letters of recommendation to you or from you?
2 You are our letter, written on our hearts, known and read by everyone.
2 You yourselves are our letter, written on our hearts, known and read by everyone.
3 You show that you are Christ's letter, delivered by us. You weren't written with ink but with the Spirit of the living God. You weren't written on tablets of stone but on tablets of human hearts.
3 You show that you are a letter from Christ, the result of our ministry, written not with ink but with the Spirit of the living God, not on tablets of stone but on tablets of human hearts.
4 This is the confidence that we have through Christ in the presence of God.
4 Such confidence we have through Christ before God.
5 It isn't that we ourselves are qualified to claim that anything came from us. No, our qualification is from God.
5 Not that we are competent in ourselves to claim anything for ourselves, but our competence comes from God.
6 He has qualified us as ministers of a new covenant, not based on what is written but on the Spirit, because what is written kills, but the Spirit gives life.
6 He has made us competent as ministers of a new covenant—not of the letter but of the Spirit; for the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.
7 The ministry that brought death was carved in letters on stone tablets. It came with such glory that the Israelites couldn't look for long at Moses' face because his face was shining with glory, even though it was a fading glory.
7 Now if the ministry that brought death, which was engraved in letters on stone, came with glory, so that the Israelites could not look steadily at the face of Moses because of its glory, transitory though it was,
8 Won't the ministry of the Spirit be much more glorious?
8 will not the ministry of the Spirit be even more glorious?
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