Are we beginning to commend ourselves again? Or do we need, like some, letters of recommendation to you or from you?
He has made us competent to be ministers of a new covenant, not of the letter, but of the Spirit. For the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.
Now if the ministry that brought death, chiseled in letters on stones, came with glory, so that the Israelites were not able to gaze steadily at Moses’s face because of its glory, which was set aside,
For if the ministry that brought condemnation had glory, the ministry that brings righteousness overflows with even more glory.
In fact, what had been glorious is not glorious now by comparison because of the glory that surpasses it.
but their minds were hardened. For to this day, at the reading of the old covenant, the same veil remains; it is not lifted, because it is set aside only in Christ.
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