2 Corinthians 3

¹Do we seem to be again attempting to put ourselves in the right? or have we need, as some have, of letters of approval to you or from you?

²You yourselves are our letter, whose writing is in our heart, open for every man's reading and knowledge;

³For you are clearly a letter of Christ, the fruit of our work, recorded not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; not in stone, but in hearts of flesh.

⁴And this is the certain faith which we have in God through Christ:

⁵Not as if we were able by ourselves to do anything for which we might take the credit; but our power comes from God;

⁶Who has made us able to be servants of a new agreement; not of the letter, but of the Spirit: for the letter gives death, but the Spirit gives life.

⁷For if the operation of the law, giving death, recorded in letters on stone, came with glory, so that the eyes of the children of Israel had to be turned away from the face of Moses because of its glory, a glory which was only for a time:

⁸Will not the operation of the Spirit have a much greater glory?

⁹For if the operation of the law, producing punishment, had its glory, how much greater will be the operation of the Spirit causing righteousness?

¹⁰For the glory of the first no longer seems to be glory, because of the greater glory of that which comes after.

¹¹For if the order which was for a time had its glory, much more will the eternal order have its glory.