Written law brings death，but spirit gives life．

出处：按学科分类—哲学、宗教 复旦大学出版社《圣经典故辞典》第778页（527字）

【释义】：

字句叫人死，精意叫人活；(喻)不能死扣教条，要领会精神实质

Now that we are sufficient of ourselves to think any things as of ourselves; but our sufficient is of God.

Who also hath made us able ministers of the new testament: not of the letter, but of the spirit: for the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life.

2 Cor.3: 5-6

并不是我们凭自己能承担甚么事，我们所能承担的乃是出于神。

他叫我们能承当这新约的执事，不是凭着字句，乃是凭着精意。因为那字句叫人死，精意是叫人活。

《哥林多后书》3∶5－6］

【条目出处】：《圣经·新约》