| | 2nd Corinthians 3:1-10
Do we begin again to commend ourselves? Or do we need, as some others, epistles of commendations to you or letters of commendation from you? Again Paul is stressing faith in Christ alone and nothing else.
You are our epistle written in our hearts, known and read by all men; Paul goes by the fruit of his actions, which is the fruit that the Corinthian people produce.
clearly you are an epistle of Christ, ministered by us, written not with ink but by the Spriit of the living God, not on tablets of stone but on tablets of flesh, that is, of the heart. We are all testimonies of flesh and blood! Able to go beyond any ink and writing through the power of our actions.
And we have such trust through Christ toward God. Faith in Christ > from Christ to God.
Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think of anything as being from ourselves but our sufficiency is from God. We are not able to do anything by ourselves > all is through God.
who also made us sufficient as ministers of the new covenant, not of the letter but of the Spirit; for the letter kils, but the Spirit gives life. Paul gives from the life-giving Spirit (message of Christ) and not from the letter(message of the law that condemns).
But if the ministry of death, written and engraved on stones, was glorious, so 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. Paul is saying that Moses' countenance had great glory even from the ministry of death.
how will the ministry of the Spirit not be more glorious? If Moses is glorious than that which comes after should be even more glorious.
For if the ministry of condemnation had glory, the ministry of righteousness exceeds much more in glory. Yep.
For even what was made glorious had no glory in this respect, because of the glory that excels. Everything pales in comparison to God's glory.
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