2 Corinthians 3:18 — Meaning and Application

2 Corinthians 3:1

"Do we begin again to commend ourselves? or need we, as some {others}, epistles of commendation to you, or {letters} of commendation from you?"

2 Corinthians 3:2

"Ye are our epistle written in our hearts, known and read of all men:"

2 Corinthians 3:3

"{Forasmuch as ye are} manifestly declared to be the epistle of Christ ministered by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; not in tables of stone, but in fleshy tables of the heart."

2 Corinthians 3:4

"And such trust have we through Christ to God-ward:"

2 Corinthians 3:5

"Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think any thing as of ourselves; but our sufficiency {is} of God;"

2 Corinthians 3:6

"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. {giveth life: or, quickeneth}"