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.