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Manifestly declared to be the letter of Christ ministered by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God, not in tables of stone, but in the fleshly tables of the heart.

Not that we are sufficient of ourselves, to think any thing as from ourselves; but our sufficiency is from God:

Who also hath made us able ministers of the new covenant, not of the letter, but of the Spirit; for the letter killeth, but the Spirit giveth life.

But their understandings were blinded: and until this day the same veil remaineth unremoved on the reading of the old testament, which is taken away in Christ.

But the veil lieth on their heart when Moses is read until this day.

Therefore having this ministry, as we have received mercy, we faint not: But have renounced the hidden things of shame,

not walking in craftiness, nor deceitfully corrupting the word of God, but by manifestation of the truth, commending ourselves to every man's conscience in the sight of God.

But if our gospel also is veiled, it is veiled to them that perish;

For we preach not ourselves, but Christ Jesus the Lord, and ourselves your servants for Jesus' sake.

But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellence of the power may be of God, and not of us.

perplexed, but not in despair; Persecuted, but not forsaken; thrown down, but not destroyed;

So then death worketh in us, but life in you. Yet having the same spirit of faith,

Therefore we faint not, but even though the outward man perish, yet the inward man is renewed day by day.

For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh out for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory:

While we aim not at the things that are seen, but the things that are not seen: for the things that are seen are temporal, but the things that are not seen are eternal.

For we who are in this tabernacle groan, being burdened; not that we would be unclothed, but clothed upon, that what is mortal may be swallowed up of life.

Knowing therefore the terror of the Lord, we persuade men: but we are made manifest to God, and I trust we are made manifest in your consciences also.

We do not again recommend ourselves to you; but we give you an occasion of glorying on our behalf, that ye may have something to answer them, who glory in appearance, and not in heart.

And that he died for all, that they who live should not henceforth live to themselves, but to him who died for them, and rose again.

Giving no offence in any thing, that the ministry be not blamed, But in all things approving ourselves as the ministers of God,