2 Corinthians 3:1-6

1Are we beginning to commend ourselves again? We don’t need letters of recommendation to you or from you as some other people do, do we?

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

3revealing that you are a letter of Christ, delivered by us, written not with ink but by the Spirit of the living God, not on stone tablets but on tablets of human hearts.

4Now we have such confidence in God through Christ.

5Not that we are adequate in ourselves to consider anything as if it were coming from ourselves, but our adequacy is from God,

6who made us adequate to be servants of a new covenant not based on the letter but on the Spirit, for the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.