Some preachers brought elaborate letters of recommendation to prove their worth and some in Corinth who apposed Paul may have been thinking he needed such letters. Paul’s response is that their converted lives were his letters, written by the Holy Spirit (v1-3).

Paul move son to speak of the privilege of being a minister of the new covenant. He contrasts this ministry with the old covenant which through the law revealed people’s guilt and how they deserved death. The new covenant is about new life in the Spirit (v4-6).

Paul highlights the glory the new covenant by saying, if the lesser old covenant had such glory, so that Moses had to hide his face when coming from God’s presence, how glorious must the new covenant be (v7-11).

Part of what Moses’ face being covered with the veil hid, was that the glory on his face was fading as the glory of the old covenant was (v12-14). The Jews failed to see this as they failed to see the glory of the new covenant granting new life in the Spirit (v15-18). Do you know the power of this new life in the Spirit? Take time to pray about this.