2 Corinthians 3:3-7

New International Version

³ You show that you are a letter from Christ, the result of our ministry, written not with ink but with the Spirit of the living God,^(A) not on tablets of stone^(B) but on tablets of human hearts.^(C)

⁴ Such confidence^(D) we have through Christ before God. ⁵ Not that we are competent in ourselves^(E) to claim anything for ourselves, but our competence comes from God.^{(F) 6} He has made us competent as ministers of a new covenant^(G)—not of the letter^(H) but of the Spirit; for the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.^(I)

The Greater Glory of the New Covenant

⁷ Now if the ministry that brought death,^(J) which was engraved in letters on stone, came with glory, so that the Israelites could not look steadily at the face of Moses because of its glory,^(K) transitory though it was,