“who also made us sufficient [to be] servants of the New Covenant, not of letter, but of the Spirit; for the letter kills, and the Spirit makes alive.”— 2 Corinthians 3:6 (LSV)
3revealed that you are a letter of Christ ministered by us, not written with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God, not in the tablets of stone, but in fleshy tablets of the heart,
4and such trust we have through the Christ toward God,
5not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think anything, as of ourselves, but our sufficiency [is] of God,
6who also made us sufficient [to be] servants of the New Covenant, not of letter, but of the Spirit; for the letter kills, and the Spirit makes alive.
7And if the ministry of death, in letters, engraved in stones, came in glory, so that the sons of Israel were not able to look steadfastly into the face of Moses, because of the glory of his face—which was being made useless,
8how will the ministry of the Spirit not be more in glory?
9For if the ministry of the condemnation [is] glory, much more does the ministry of righteousness abound in glory;