      | ¶ | Do we begin again to commend ourselves? or need we, as some [others], epistles of commendation to you, or [letters] of commendation from you? | |
| Ye are our epistle written in our hearts, known and read of all men: | ||
 | [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. | ||
| ¶ | And such trust have we through Christ to God-ward: | |
| Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think any thing as of ourselves; but our sufficiency [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. | ||
 | ¶ | 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: | |
| How shall not the ministration of the spirit be rather glorious? | ||
| For if the ministration of condemnation [be] glory, much more doth the ministration of righteousness exceed in glory. | ||
| For even that which was made glorious had no glory in this respect, by reason of the glory that excelleth. | ||
| For if that which is done away [was] glorious, much more that which remaineth [is] glorious. | ||
| Seeing then that we have such hope, we use great plainness of speech: | ||
| 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: | ||
| 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. | ||
| But even unto this day, when Moses is read, the vail is upon their heart. | ||
| Nevertheless when it shall turn to the Lord, the vail shall be taken away. | ||
| Now the Lord is that Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord [is], there [is] liberty. | ||
| 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. |
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2 Corinthians - Chapter 3
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