3manifested that ye are a letter of Christ ministered by us, written not 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] ministrants of a new covenant, not of letter, but of spirit; for the letter doth kill, and the spirit doth make alive.
7and if the ministration of the death, in letters, engraved in stones, came in glory, so that the sons of Israel were not able to look stedfastly to the face of Moses, because of the glory of his face -- which was being made useless,
8how shall the ministration of the Spirit not be more in glory?
9for if the ministration of the condemnation [is] glory, much more doth the ministration of the righteousness abound in glory;