2 Corinthians 3:1-6

1Are we beginning to commend ourselves again? Or do we need, like some, letters of recommendation to you or from you?

2You yourselves are our letter, written on our hearts, known and read by everyone.

3You show that you are Christ’s letter, delivered by us, not written with ink but with the Spirit of the living God  — not on tablets of stone but on tablets of human hearts.

4Such is the confidence we have through Christ before God.

5It is not that we are competent in ourselves to claim anything as coming from ourselves, but our adequacy is from God.

6He has made us competent to be ministers of a new covenant, not of the letter, but of the Spirit. For the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.