My Daily Meditation
Today’s Reading
The Second Epistle to the Church at Corinth
Chapter 3:1-6
1 Do we begin to praise ourselves again? or need we as some others, Epistles of recommendation unto you, or letters of recommendation from you?
2 Ye are our epistle, written in our hearts, which is understood and read of all men,
3 In that ye are manifest, to be the Epistle of Christ, ministered by us, and written, not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God, not in tables of stone, but in fleshly tables of the heart. (a)
4 And such trust have we through Christ to God:
5 Not that we are sufficient of ourselves, to think anything, as of ourselves: but our sufficiency is of God,
6 Who also hath made us able ministers of the New Testament, not of the letter, but of the Spirit: for the letter killeth, but the Spirit giveth life. (b)
(a) Editor’s notation - Re: vs 3 - Read Jeremiah 31:32-34; Ezekiel 11:17-20, 36:22-28; Joel 2:26-29
(b) Editor’s thought - Since no person can live under the letter of the law, that is to say in complete righteousness, it is necessary for us to be renewed and restored by the Holy Spirit.
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