3. Forasmuch as ye are manifestly declared to be the epistle of Christ ministered by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; not in tables of stone, but in fleshy tables of the heart.
4. And such trust we have through the Christ towards God:
5. Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think anything as of ourselves, but our sufficiency is of God,
6. who also has made us able ministers of the new testament, not of the letter, but of the Spirit; for the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.
7. But if the ministry of death in the letter engraved in stones was glorious, so that the sons of Israel could not steadfastly behold the face of Moses for the glory of his countenance which glory was to fade away,
8. How shall not the ministry of the Spirit be for greater glory?
9. For if the ministry of condemnation had glory, much more shall the ministry of righteousness abound in glory.
10. For even that which was so glorious had no glory in this respect, in comparison with the glory that excels.
11. For if that which fades away was glorious, much more shall that which remains be glorious.