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 again begin to commend ourselves? or whether have we need of commendatory letters to you or from you, as some do?
2 You are our letter, written in our hearts, known and read by all men,
You are our letter, having been 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.
being manifest that you are the letter of Christ, having been ministered by us, having been written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God: not in tables of stone, but in tables that are hearts of flesh.
4 Such confidence we have through Christ toward God,
But we have such confidence through Christ towards God,
5 not that we are sufficient of ourselves to account anything as from ourselves; but our sufficiency is from God,
not that we are able of ourselves to think anything as from 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 rendered us able ministers of the new covenant; not of the letter, but of the spirit: for the letter kills, but the spirit creates 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 ministry of death, having been written in letters of stone, was in glory, so that the sons of Israel were not able to look upon the face of Moses on account of the glory of his countenance; which was destined to be done away:
8 won’t service of the Spirit be with much more glory?
how will not the ministry of the spirit be more in glory?
9 For if the service of condemnation has glory, the service of righteousness exceeds much more in glory.
For if there was glory in the ministry of condemnation, how much more does the ministry of righteousness abound 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 indeed that which was glorious, has ceased to be glorious in this respect on account of the transcendent glory.
11 For if that which passes away was with glory, much more that which remains is in glory.
For if that which was to be done away was through glory, much more is that which abides in glory.
12 Having therefore such a hope, we use great boldness of speech,
Then having such 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 not as Moses put the veil on his face, in order that the sons of Israel might not look forward to the end of that which was transitory.
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 darkened. For until this day the same veil remains in the reading of the old covenant, remains, not lifted; because it is done away in Christ;
15 But to this day, when Moses is read, a veil lies on their heart.
but until this day when Moses is read, the veil lies upon their heart:
16 But whenever someone turns to the Lord, the veil is taken away.
but when they may turn to the Lord, the veil is taken away.
17 Now the Lord is the Spirit; and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.
But the Lord is a 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 beholding the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord.
