It is not that we are competent in[a] ourselves to consider anything as coming from ourselves, but our competence is from God.(A) He has made us competent to be ministers of a new covenant,(B) not of the letter,(C) but of the Spirit. For the letter kills, but the Spirit produces life.

New Covenant Ministry

Now if the ministry of death, chiseled in letters on stones, came with glory,(D) so that the Israelites were not able to look directly at Moses’ face because of the glory from his face—a fading glory—

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  1. 2 Corinthians 3:5 Lit from

Not that we are competent in ourselves(A) to claim anything for ourselves, but our competence comes from God.(B) He has made us competent as ministers of a new covenant(C)—not of the letter(D) but of the Spirit; for the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.(E)

The Greater Glory of the New Covenant

Now if the ministry that brought death,(F) which was engraved in letters on stone, came with glory, so that the Israelites could not look steadily at the face of Moses because of its glory,(G) transitory though it was,

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