4. And such trust we have toward Elohim, through the Messiah.
5. Not that we are competent in ourselves to reckon any matter as from ourselves, but our competence is from Elohim,
6. who also made us competent as servants of a renewed covenant, not of the letter but of the Spirit, for the letter kills but the Spirit gives life.
7. But if the administering of death in letters, engraved on stones, was esteemed, so that the children of Yisra’ĕl were unable to look steadily at the face of Mosheh because of the esteem of his face, which was passing away,
8. how much more esteemed shall the administering of the Spirit not be?