2 Corinthians 3:5-7

Holman Christian Standard Bible

⁵ It is not that we are competent in^[a] ourselves to consider anything as coming from ourselves, but our competence is from God.^{(A) 6} 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

⁷ 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—