2 Corinthians 3
1. Do we begin * again to commend * ourselves? or need we * , as some others, epistles of commendation to you, or letters of commendation from you?
2. Ye are * our epistle written * in our hearts, known * and read * of all men:
3. Forasmuch as ye are manifestly declared * to be * the epistle of Christ ministered * by us, written * not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living * God; not in tables of stone, but in fleshy tables of the heart.
4. And such trust have we * through Christ to God-ward:
5. Not that we are * sufficient of ourselves to think * any thing as of ourselves; but our sufficiency is of God;
6. 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 * .
7. But if the ministration of death,written and engraven * in stones, was * glorious, so that the children of Israel could * not stedfastly behold * the face of Moses for the glory of his countenance; which glory was to be done away * :
8. How shall * not the ministration of the spirit be * rather glorious?
9. For if the ministration of condemnation be glory, much more doth the ministration of righteousness exceed * in glory.
10. For even that which was made glorious * had no glory * in this respect, by reason of the glory that excelleth * .
11. For if that which is done away * was glorious, much more that which remaineth * is glorious.
12. Seeing then that we have * such hope, we use * great plainness of speech:
13. And not as Moses, which put * a vail over his face,that the children of Israel could * not stedfastly look * to the end of that which is abolished * :
14. But their minds were blinded * : for until this day remaineth * the same vail untaken away * in the reading of the old testament; which vail is done away * in Christ.
15. But even unto this day, when Moses is read * , the vail is upon * their heart.
16. Nevertheless when it shall turn * to the Lord, the vail shall be taken away * .
17. Now the Lord is * that Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.
18. But we all, with open * face beholding as in a glass * the glory of the Lord, are changed * into the same image from glory to glory,even as by the Spirit of the Lord.
