2 Corinthians 3
1 Are we beginning to commend ourselves again? Or do we need letters of recommendation to you, or from you, as some do?
2 You are our letter, written on our hearts, known and read by everyone.
3 It is clear that you are a letter from Christ, produced through our service, written not with ink but with the Spirit of the living God—not on stone tablets, but on tablets that are hearts of flesh.
4 Through Christ, we have this kind of confidence before God.
5 Not that we are capable, on our own, of thinking anything as coming from ourselves; rather, our ability comes from God.
6 He also made us capable of serving a new covenant, not of the letter but of the Spirit; for the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.
7 Now, the ministry of death, engraved in letters on stones, came with glory, so that the Israelites could not gaze at Moses’ face because of the glory on his face, a glory that was passing away.
8 How much greater, then, will the ministry of the Spirit be in glory?
9 For if the ministry of condemnation was glorious, the ministry of righteousness abounds in glory all the more.
10 Indeed, what was glorified has, in this respect, no glory because of the surpassing glory.
11 For if what was passing away came with glory, how much greater in glory is what remains.
12 So, with this hope, we act with great boldness.
13 We are not like Moses, who put a veil over his face so that the Israelites would not gaze at the end of what was passing away.
14 But their minds were hardened. For to this very day, when the old covenant is read, the same veil remains, not lifted, because it is removed in Christ.
15 But to this day, whenever Moses is read, a veil lies over their hearts.
16 But whenever someone turns to the Lord, the veil is removed.
17 Now, the Lord is the Spirit; and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom.
18 And all of us, with unveiled faces, reflecting the Lord’s glory as in a mirror, are being transformed into the same image, from glory to glory, as by the Lord, the Spirit.
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