5. I do not mean that we are able to say that we can do this work ourselves. It is God who makes us able to do all that we do.
6. God made us able to be servants of a new agreement from himself to his people. This new agreement is not a written law. It is of the Spirit. The written law brings death, but the Spirit gives life.
7. The law that brought death was written in words on stone. It came with God’s glory. Moses’ face was so bright with glory that the people of Israel could not continue to look at his face. And that glory later disappeared.
8. So surely the new way that brings the Spirit has even more glory.
9. That law judged people guilty of sin, but it had glory. So surely the new way that makes people right with God has much greater glory.
10. That old law had glory. But it really loses its glory when it is compared to the much greater glory of this new way.