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2 Corinthians 3 :: Amplified Bible (AMP)

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Ministers of a New Covenant

(cf. Jer 31:31–34 )

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Unchecked Copy Box2Co 3:1 -

Are we starting to commend ourselves again? Or do we need, like some [false teachers], letters of recommendation to you or from you? [No!]

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Co 3:2

Unchecked Copy Box2Co 3:2 - You are our letter [of recommendation], written in our hearts, recognized and read by everyone.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Co 3:3

Unchecked Copy Box2Co 3:3 - You show that you are a letter from Christ, delivered by us, written not with ink but with the Spirit of the living God, not on tablets of stone but on tablets of human hearts.

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Such is the confidence and steadfast reliance and absolute trust that we have through Christ toward God.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Co 3:5 - Not that we are sufficiently qualified in ourselves to claim anything as coming from us, but our sufficiency and qualifications come from God.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Co 3:6 - He has qualified us [making us sufficient] as ministers of a new covenant [of salvation through Christ], not of the letter [of a written code] but of the Spirit; for the letter [of the Law] kills [by revealing sin and demanding obedience], but the Spirit gives life.

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Now if the ministry of death, engraved in letters on stones [the covenant of the Law which led to death because of sin], came with such glory and splendor that the Israelites were not able to look steadily at the face of Moses because of its glory, [a brilliance] that was fading,

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Unchecked Copy Box2Co 3:8 - how will the ministry of the Spirit [the new covenant which allows us to be Spirit-filled] fail to be even more glorious and splendid?

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Unchecked Copy Box2Co 3:9 - For if the ministry that brings condemnation [the old covenant, the Law] has glory, how much more does glory overflow in the ministry that brings righteousness [the new covenant which declares believers free of guilt and sets them apart for God’s special purpose]!

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Unchecked Copy Box2Co 3:10 - Indeed, what had glory [the Law], in this case no longer has glory because of the glory that surpasses it [the gospel].

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Unchecked Copy Box2Co 3:11 - For if that [Law] which fades away came with glory, how much more must that [gospel] which remains and is permanent abide in glory and splendor!

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Since we have such a [glorious] hope and confident expectation, we speak with great courage,

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Unchecked Copy Box2Co 3:13 - and we are not like Moses, who used to put a veil over his face so that the Israelites would not gaze at the end of the glory which was fading away.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Co 3:14 - But [in fact] their minds were hardened [for they had lost the ability to understand]; for until this very day at the reading of the old covenant the same veil remains unlifted, because it is removed [only] in Christ.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Co 3:15 - But to this day whenever Moses is read, a veil [of blindness] lies over their heart;

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Unchecked Copy Box2Co 3:16 - but whenever a person turns [in repentance and faith] to the Lord, the veil is taken away.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Co 3:17 - Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty [emancipation from bondage, true freedom].

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Unchecked Copy Box2Co 3:18 - And we all, with unveiled face, continually seeing as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are progressively being transformed into His image from [one degree of] glory to [even more] glory, which comes from the Lord, [who is] the Spirit.
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