2 Corinthians 3:4-6 ESV
Such confidence we have through Christ toward God. Not that we are adequate in ourselves to consider anything as coming from ourselves, but our adequacy is from God, who also made us adequate as servants of a new covenant, not of the letter but of the Spirit; for the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.
The Ten Commandments came through the glory of God, but they were not able to save man because he was unable to keep them. They did prepare the way for Yeshua (Jesus) to come with the saving grace to offer and accomplish salvation.
The letter kills. This is the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil. The law would open the eyes of man to that knowledge, but would not provide a way, the power, to choose that way. Yeshua would come to provide that way, the Spirit Who gives life.
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