⁴⁵ “Who then is ^(A)the faithful and ^(B)wise servant,^[a] whom his master has set over his household, to give them their food at the proper time?

⁶ For because of this you also pay taxes, for the authorities are ministers of God, attending to this very thing.

⁶ who has made us sufficient to be ^(A)ministers of ^(B)a new covenant, not of ^(C)the letter but of the Spirit. For the letter kills, but ^(D)the Spirit gives life.

^25 (A)of which I became a minister according to ^(B)the stewardship from God that was given to me for you, to make the word of God fully known,