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5 ) Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think any thing as of ourselves, but our sufficiency is of God,
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6 ) Who also has made us able ministers of the new testament, not of the letter, but of the spirit: for the letter kills, but the spirit gives life.
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7 ) But if the ministration of death, written and engraved in stones, was glorious, so that the children of Israel could not steadfastly behold the face of Moses for the glory of his countenance, which glory was to be done away:
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8 ) How shall not the ministration of the spirit be rather glorious?
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9 ) For if the ministration of condemnation be glory, much more does the ministration of righteousness exceed in glory.
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10 ) For even that which was made glorious had no glory in this respect, by reason of the glory that excels.
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11 ) For if that which is done away was glorious, much more that which remains is glorious.