II Corinthians 3:5
The Scripture
(5) Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think any thing as of ourselves; but our sufficiency is of God;
Chapter overview (whole chapter)
Paul described the Corinthians themselves as his letter of recommendation, written not with ink but by the Spirit of the living God, contrasting the glory of the old covenant of the letter that kills with the greater glory of the new covenant of the Spirit that gives life. He explained that believers, with unveiled faces beholding the Lord's glory, are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory.
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