Verse
BSB
Berean Standard Bible
KJV
King James Version
Are
we beginning
to commend ourselves again
? Or do
we
need, like
some people
, letters
of recommendation
to you or from you?
Do
we begin
again
to commend ourselves? or need we
, as
some others
, epistles
of commendation
to you ,
or letters
of
commendation
from you?
You
yourselves
are our letter,
inscribed
on
our hearts, known and read by
everyone.
Ye
are our epistle
written
in
our hearts, known and read of
all
men:
It
is
clear
that
you
are a
letter
from
Christ,
the result
of our
ministry
, written not with ink but with the Spirit of the living God ,
not on
tablets
of stone but on
tablets
of human
hearts
.
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
.
Such confidence
before
God
is
ours
through Christ .
And
such trust
have
we
through Christ to
God-ward:
Not that we are competent
in
ourselves to claim
that
anything
comes
from
us,
but our competence
comes
from
God .
Not that we are sufficient
of
ourselves to think
any
thing
as
of
ourselves;
but our sufficiency
is
of
God ;
And
He
has
qualified
us as
ministers of a
new covenant,
not of the letter but of the Spirit ;
for the letter kills
, but the Spirit gives
life.
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.
Now
if the ministry
of death, which
was
engraved
in letters
on
stone
, came
with
such
glory
that the Israelites
could not gaze
at
the face of Moses because
of its
fleeting
glory ,
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:
will
not the ministry
of the Spirit be even
more
glorious?
How
shall
not the ministration
of the spirit be rather
glorious?
For if the ministry
of condemnation was
glorious
, how
much more glorious
is
the ministry
of righteousness !
For if the ministration
of condemnation be
glory
, much more doth
the ministration
of righteousness exceed
in
glory.
Indeed,
what
was once
glorious has
no glory now
in comparison
to
the glory that surpasses
it
.
For
even
that
which
was made
glorious had
no glory in this
respect,
by
reason
of
the glory that excelleth
.
For if what
was
fading
away came
with
glory
, how
much greater
is
the
glory
of
that which endures!
For if that
which
is
done
away was
glorious
, much more
that which remaineth
is
glorious.
Therefore,
since
we have such a
hope, we are
very
bold.
Seeing
then
that
we have such hope, we use
great
plainness
of
speech:
We
are
not like
Moses, who
would
put a veil
over his face to
keep
the Israelites
from
gazing
at
the end of what
was
fading
away.
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 closed.
For to
this day the same veil
remains
at
the reading of the old covenant.
It
has
not
been
lifted,
because
only
in Christ can
it
be
removed
.
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.
And
even to
this day when Moses is read, a
veil
covers
their hearts
.
But
even unto
this day ,
when Moses is read, the
vail
is
upon
their heart
.
But
whenever
anyone
turns
to the Lord, the veil
is
taken away.
Nevertheless
when
it
shall
turn
to the Lord, the vail
shall
be
taken away.
Now the Lord is the
Spirit ,
and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom
.
Now the Lord is that
Spirit :
and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty
.
And
we, who
with unveiled
faces
all
reflect
the glory of the Lord, are being
transformed
into His
image with
intensifying
glory,
which
comes
from the
Lord
, who
is
the Spirit.
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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