2 Corinthians 3:1-11

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1 - Do we begin again having to prove ourselves? (To those criticizing him and his teaching/message.) Do we need now, as some do, letters of recommendation? 2 You yourselves are our letter of recommendation! Written on our hearts! To be known and read by all. 3 And you show that you are a letter from Christ as well, written not with ink but with the Spirit {Presence} of the living God. Not on tablets of stone, but upon human hearts. 4 And such is the confidence we have through Christ toward God. 5 Not that we are sufficient in ourselves, as if anything is coming from us, but our sufficiency is from God, 6 who has enabled us to be servants/attendants of a new covenant, one not of the letter (rules, but you know how human nature loves rules.. usually for others) but is of the Spirit. For the letter kills {fails, utterly, aka hopeless, imperfect/the law of entropy doesn’t reverse course, what it is, ultimately, to be “under” law?} but the Spirit GIVES life.

     7 Now if the ministry (or covenant) of death, carved in letters on stone, came with such radiance that the Israelite tribes couldn’t look upon Moses' face because of its brightness, but it was intended to be temporary, 8 will not the ministry and covenant of the Spirit have even more glory and radiance? {It being then, since GIVEN, a promise. Aka, a ‘legal’ binding Promise.} 9 For if there was glory in the ministry of condemnation [explaining the law and the ‘charge’ - yet it’s like, if you jump off this tall building you will hit the ground with a thump} how much more, the ministry of righteousness must far exceed in glory! 10 Indeed, in this case, what once had glory has come to not have glory after all, because of the glory that surpasses it. 11 For if what was being brought to an end came with glory, how much more glory shall - what is permanent - have!

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