2 Corinthians 3
1 Are we beginning again to commend ourselves? Or do we need, as do some, letters of commendation 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?
2 You are our letter, written in our hearts, known and read by all men,
Ye are our epistle written in our hearts, known and read of all men:
3 being revealed that you are a letter of Christ, served by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; not in tablets of stone, but in tablets that are hearts of flesh.
[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 Such confidence we have through Christ toward God,
And such trust have we through Christ to God-ward:
5 not that we are sufficient of ourselves to account anything as from ourselves; but our sufficiency is from God,
Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think any thing as of ourselves; but our sufficiency [is] of God;
6 who also made us sufficient as servants 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.
7 But if the service of death, written engraved on stones, came with glory, so that the children of Israel could not look steadfastly on the face of Moses for the glory of his face, which was passing away,
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 will not service of the Spirit be with much more glory?
How shall not the ministration of the spirit be rather glorious?
9 For if the service of condemnation has glory, the service of righteousness exceeds much more in glory.
For if the ministration of condemnation [be] glory, much more doth the ministration of righteousness exceed in glory.
10 For most certainly that which has been made glorious has not been made glorious in this respect, by reason of the glory that surpasses.
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 passes away was with glory, much more that which remains is in glory.
For if that which is done away [was] glorious, much more that which remaineth [is] glorious.
12 Having therefore such a hope, we use great boldness of speech,
Seeing then that we have such hope, we use great plainness of speech:
13 and not as Moses, who put a veil on his face so that the children of Israel would not look steadfastly on the end of that which was passing 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:
14 But their minds were hardened, for until this very day at the reading of the old covenant the same veil remains, because in Christ it passes away.
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 to this day, when Moses is read, a veil lies on their heart.
But even unto this day, when Moses is read, the vail is upon their heart.
16 But whenever someone turns to the Lord, the veil is taken away.
Nevertheless when it shall turn to the Lord, the vail shall be taken away.
17 Now the Lord is the Spirit; and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.
Now the Lord is that Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord [is], there [is] liberty.
18 But we all, with unveiled face seeing the glory of the Lord as in a mirror, are transformed into the same image from glory to glory, even as from the Lord, 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.
