The Letter Kills, but the Spirit Gives Life

Let's Pray:

Lord, we extol You again, acknowledging that You are the One who gives the Spirit, the bountiful Spirit, life-giving Spirit, the indwelling Spirit, not by measure. Oh, this really meets our need!

Hymn: 445

Today's Verses and Footnotes: 2 Cor 2:12-3:6

Key Verse:

2 Cor 3:6 Who has also made us sufficient as ministers of a new covenant, ministers not of the letter but of the Spirit; for the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.

Filling the Blanks:

The Spirit of the living God, with whom the apostles ministered ( ) into the believers to make them the ( ) letters of Christ . Unlike the Mosaic ministry for the Old Testament, the apostolic ministry for the New Testament is not of dead ( ) but of the living ( ), who gives life. (See 2 Cor 3:6 note 2)