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And such trust have we through Christ to God-
ward: not that we are sufficient of ourselves to
think anything as of ourselves; but our

sufficiency is of God; 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.

11 For if that first covenant had been faultless,
then no place would have been sought for the
second. For finding fault with them, he said:
Behold, the days come, says the Lord, when I
will make a new covenant with the house of
Israel and with the house of Judah: not
according to the covenant that I made with

their fathers in the day when I took them by
the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt;
because they continued not in my covenant,
and I regarded them not, says the Lord.

For this is the covenant that I will make

with the house of Israel after those days, says
the Lord; I will put my laws into their minds,

and write them in their hearts: and I will be
to them a God, and they shall be to me a
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