4. This is the confidence that we have through Christ in the presence of God.
5. It isn’t that we ourselves are qualified to claim that anything came from us. No, our qualification is 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.
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.
8. Won’t the ministry of the Spirit be much more glorious?