Not that we are adequate in ourselves so as to consider anything as having come from ourselves, but (A)our adequacy is from God, who also made us adequate as (B)servants of a (C)new covenant, not of (D)the letter but of the Spirit; for the letter kills, but (E)the Spirit gives life.

But if the (F)ministry of death, engraved (G)in letters on stones, came [a]with glory (H)so that the sons of Israel could not look intently at the face of Moses because of the glory of his face, fading as it was,

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Corinthians 3:7 Or in glory

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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