The Spirit Gives Life

2 Corinthians 3:1-6

New Century Version (NCV)

¹ Are we starting to brag about ourselves again? Do we need letters of introduction to you or from you, like some other people?² You yourselves are our letter, written on our hearts, known and read by everyone.³ You show that you are a letter from Christ sent through us. This letter is not written with ink but with the Spirit of the living God. It is not written on stone tablets^[a] but on human hearts.

 ⁴ We can say this, because through Christ we feel certain before God.⁵ We are not saying that we can do this work ourselves. It is God who makes us able to do all that we do.⁶ He made us able to be servants of a new agreement from himself to his people. This new agreement is not a written law, but it is of the Spirit. The written law brings death, but the Spirit gives life.