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2 Corinthians 3

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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 recommend ourselves , except we need, as some, letters of recommendation unto you , or from you?
You yourselves are our letter, inscribed on our hearts, known and read by everyone.
our letter ye are , having been written in our hearts, known and read by 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.
manifested that ye are a letter of Christ ministered by us , written not with ink , but with the Spirit of the living God, not in the tablets of stone , but in fleshy tablets of the heart,
Such confidence before God is ours through Christ .
and such trust we have through the Christ toward God,
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 anything, 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 made us sufficient `to be' ministrants of a new covenant, not of letter , but of spirit; for the letter doth kill , and the spirit doth make alive .
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,
and if the ministration of the death, in letters, engraved in stones, came in glory , so that the sons of Israel were not able to look stedfastly to the face of Moses , because of the glory of his face -- which was being made useless ,
will not the ministry of the Spirit be even more glorious ?
how shall the ministration of the Spirit not be more in glory ?
For if the ministry of condemnation was glorious , how much more glorious is the ministry of righteousness !
for if the ministration of the condemnation `is' glory , much more doth the ministration of the righteousness abound in glory;
Indeed , what was once glorious has no glory now in comparison to the glory that surpasses it.
for also even that which hath been glorious , hath not been glorious -- in this respect, because of the superior glory ;
For if what was fading away came with glory, how much greater is the glory of that which endures!
for if that which is being made useless `is' through glory, much more that which is remaining `is' in glory.
Therefore , since we have such a hope, we are very bold.
Having , then, such hope, we use much freedom 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 ` are ' not as Moses, who was putting a vail upon his own face , for the sons of Israel not stedfastly to look to the end of that which is being made useless,
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 hardened, for unto this day the same vail at the reading of the Old Covenant doth remain unwithdrawn -- which in Christ is being made useless --
And even to this day when Moses is read, a veil covers their hearts.
but till to - day , when Moses is read, a vail upon their heart doth lie,
But whenever anyone turns to the Lord, the veil is taken away.
and whenever they may turn unto the Lord, the vail is taken away.
Now the Lord is the Spirit , and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom.
And the Lord is the 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.
and we all , with unvailed face, the glory of the Lord beholding in a mirror , to the same image are being transformed, from glory to glory , even as by the Spirit of the Lord .

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