Rotherham(i)
1 Are we to begin again, ourselves, to commend? or have we need, like some, of commendatory letters unto you, or from you?
2 Our letter, ye, are, inscribed in our hearts, noted and read by all men:
3 Manifesting yourselves that ye are a letter of Christ, ministered by us,––inscribed––not with ink, but with [the] Spirit of a Living God, not in tablets of stone, but in tablets [which are] hearts of flesh.
4 But, such confidence as this, have we, through the Christ, towards God.
5 Not that, of our own selves, sufficient, are we, to reckon anything as of ourselves, but, our sufficiency, is of God; ––
6 Who also hath made us sufficient to be ministers of a new covenant––not of letter, but of spirit, for, the letter, killeth, whereas, the Spirit, maketh alive. 7 But, if, the ministry of death, in letters engraven in stones, was brought into existence with glory, so that the sons of Israel could not look steadfastly into the face of Moses, by reason of the glory of his face––which [glory] was to be done away,
6 Who also hath made us sufficient to be ministers of a new covenant––not of letter, but of spirit, for, the letter, killeth, whereas, the Spirit, maketh alive. 7 But, if, the ministry of death, in letters engraven in stones, was brought into existence with glory, so that the sons of Israel could not look steadfastly into the face of Moses, by reason of the glory of his face––which [glory] was to be done away,