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?
Are we beginning again to commend ourselves? Unless we need, as some men, commendatory letters to you or commendatory from you?
2 You are our letter, written in our hearts, known and read by all men,
Ye are our letter, written in our hearts, known and read by 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.
being seen that ye are a letter of Christ, administered by us, written not in ink, but in the Spirit of the living God, not in stony tablets, but in fleshly tablets, in hearts.
4 Such confidence we have through Christ toward God,
And we have such confidence toward God through Christ,
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 reckon anything as from ourselves, but our sufficiency is from 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 made us qualified helpers of a new covenant, not of a document, but of a Spirit, for the document kills but the Spirit makes alive.
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 administration of death in writings engraved on stones occurred in glory, so that the sons of Israel could not gaze upon the face of Moses because of the fading glory of his countenance,
8 won’t service of the Spirit be with much more glory?
how will the administration of the Spirit not be more in glory?
9 For if the service of condemnation has glory, the service of righteousness exceeds much more in glory.
For if the administration of condemnation has glory, the administration of righteousness excels much more 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 also that which has been glorified, has not been glorified in this regard, because of the glory that transcends.
11 For if that which passes away was with glory, much more that which remains is in glory.
For if that which is abolished was through glory, much more that which remains is in glory.
12 Having therefore such a hope, we use great boldness of speech,
Having therefore such a hope we use great boldness,
13 and not as Moses, who put a veil on his face so that the children of Israel wouldn’t look steadfastly on the end of that which was passing away.
and are not as Moses. He put a veil over his face in order for the sons of Israel not to gaze on the end of the fading.
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 hardened, for to this day the same veil remains at the reading of the old testament, not being uncovered, which thing is abolished in Christ.
15 But to this day, when Moses is read, a veil lies on their heart.
But to this day when Moses is read, a veil lies upon their heart.
16 But whenever someone turns to the Lord, the veil is taken away.
But whenever it 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 liberty.
Now the Lord is the 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 unveiled face seeing by reflection the glory of the Lord, are transformed into the same likeness from glory to glory, just as from the Spirit of the Lord.
