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The Spirit, Not the Letter

4 And we have such trust through Christ toward God.
5 aNot that we are sufficient of ourselves to think of anything as being from ourselves, but bour sufficiency is from God,  
6 who also made us sufficient as aministers of bthe new covenant, not cof the letter but of the Spirit; for dthe letter kills, ebut the Spirit gives life.  

Glory of the New Covenant

7 But if athe ministry of death, bwritten and engraved on stones, was glorious, cso that the children of Israel could not look steadily at the face of Moses because of the glory of his countenance, which glory was passing away,  
8 how will athe ministry of the Spirit not be more glorious?  
9 For if the ministry of condemnation had glory, the ministry aof righteousness exceeds much more in glory.  
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2 Corinthians 3:6

Who also hath made us able ministers of the new covenant - Of the new, evangelical dispensation. Not of the law, fitly called the letter, from God's literally writing it on the two tables. But of the Spirit - Of the gospel dispensation, which is written on the tables of our hearts by the Spirit. For the letter - The law, the Mosaic dispensation. Killeth - Seals in death those who still cleave to it. But the Spirit - The gospel, conveying the Spirit to those who receive it. Giveth life - Both spiritual and eternal: yea, if we adhere to the literal sense even of the moral law, if we regard only the precept and the sanction as they stand in themselves, not as they lead us to Christ, they are doubtless a killing ordinance, and bind us down under the sentence of death.




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