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.
