Our fitness comes from God, who himself made us fit to be ministers of a New Covenant, of which the substance is, not a written Law, but a Spirit. For the written Law means Death, but the Spirit gives Life.

But all this is the work of God, who reconciled us to himself through Christ, and gave us the Ministry of Reconciliation--

To proclaim that God, in Christ, was reconciling the world to himself, not reckoning men's offenses against them, and that he had entrusted us with the Message of this reconciliation.

You look at the outward appearance of things! Let any one, who is confident that he belongs to Christ, reflect, for himself, again upon the fact--that we belong to Christ no less than he does.

For it is not the man who commends himself that stands the test, but the man who is commended by the Lord.

And no wonder; for even Satan disguises himself as an angel of Light.