Ministers of a New Covenant

1Begin we again to recommend ourselves or need we not, as some; recommendatory epistles to you, or recommendatory from you? 2Ye are our epistle written in our hearts, known and acknowledged by all men: 3Made manifest that ye are the epistle of Christ served by us, not written with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; not in tables made of stone, but in fleshly tables of the heart.

4And we have such confidence through Christ to God: 5Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to reckon anything as of ourselves; but our sufficiency of God; 6Who rendered as fitting servants of the new covenant; not of the letter, but of the Spirit: for the letter kills, and the Spirit makes alive.

The Glory of the New Covenant
(Exodus 34:10–35)

7And if the service of death, in letters imprinted in stones, was in glory, so that the sons of Israel could not look intently to the face of Moses for the glory of his face; being left unemployed. 8How shall not rather the service of the Spirit be in glory? 9For if the service of condemnation glory, much more the service of justice abounds in glory. 10For also that having been glorified has not been glorified in this part, for sake of the glory excelling. 11For if that left unemployed by glory, much more that remaining in glory.

12Therefore having such hope, we use much freedom of speech: 13And not as Moses put a veil upon his face, that the sons of Israel should not look intently to the end of that left unemployed: 14But their minds were hardened: for until this day the same veil upon the reading of the old covenant remains not uncovered; for in Christ it is left unemployed. 15But even to this day, when Moses is read, a veil lies upon their heart. 16And whenever it turn to the Lord, the veil is taken away. 17And the Lord is the Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord, there freedom. 18And we all, shown as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, with the face uncovered, are transformed into the same image from glory to glory, as from the Spirit of the Lord.