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The Sufficiency of the New Covenant Ministry
2 Corinthians 3:6
Showing verse 6 with surrounding context.
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You make it clear that you are a letter from the Messiah placed in our care, written not with ink but by the Spirit of the living God, not on stone tablets but on human hearts.
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Such is the confidence we have through the Messiah toward God.
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It is not that we are competent in ourselves to count anything as having come from us; on the contrary, our competence is from God.
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He has even made us competent to be workers serving a New Covenant, the essence of which is not a written text but the Spirit. For the written text brings death, but the Spirit gives life.
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Now if that which worked death, by means of a written text engraved on stone tablets, came with glory — such glory that the people of Isra’el could not stand to look at Moshe’s face because of its brightness, even though that brightness was already fading away —
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won’t the working of the Spirit be accompanied by even greater glory?
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For if there was glory in what worked to declare people guilty, how much more must the glory abound in what works to declare people innocent!
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