6. Who also has made us able ministers of the new covenant; not of the letter, but of the spirit: for the letter kills, but the spirit gives life.
7. But if the ministry of death, written and engraved in stones, was glorious, so that the children of Israel could not steadfastly behold the face of Moses for the glory of his countenance; which glory was to be done away:
8. How shall not the ministry of the Spirit be more glorious?
9. For if the ministry of condemnation be glory, much more does the ministry of righteousness exceed in glory.
10. For even that which was made glorious had no glory in this respect, by reason of the glory that excels.
11. For if that which is done away was glorious, much more that which remains is glorious.
12. Seeing then that we have such hope, we use great plainness of speech:
13. And not as Moses, who put a veil over his face, that the children of Israel could not steadfastly see the end of that which is abolished: