2 Corinthians 3
1 Doe we begin to praise our selues againe? or neede we as some other, epistles of recommendation vnto you, or letters of recommendation from you?
Are we beginning to commend ourselves again? Do we need, as some do, letters of recommendation to you or letters of recommendation from you?
2 Yee are our epistle, written in our hearts, which is vnderstand, and read of all men,
You are our letter, written on our hearts, known and read by all.
3 In that yee are manifest, to be the Epistle of Christ, ministred by vs, and written, not with yncke, but with the Spirite of the liuing God, not in tables of stone, but in fleshly tables of the heart.
You show that you are a letter from Christ, delivered by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God, not on stone tablets, but on tablets of human hearts.
4 And such trust haue we through Christ to God:
Such is the confidence that we have in God through Christ.
5 Not that we are sufficient of our selues, to thinke any thing, as of our selues: but our sufficiencie is of God,
Not that we are competent in and of ourselves to claim that anything comes from us, but our competence comes from God.
6 Who also hath made vs able ministers of the Newe testament, not of the letter, but of the Spirite: for the letter killeth, but the Spirite giueth life.
He has made us competent to be ministers of a new covenant, not of the letter, but of the Spirit. For the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.
7 If then the ministration of death written with letters and ingrauen in stones, was glorious, so that the children of Israel coulde not beholde the face of Moses, for the glorie of his countenance (which glorie is done away.)
Now if the ministry of death, which was engraved in letters on stone, came with glory, so that the sons of Israel could not gaze at the face of Moses because of its glory (a glory that was fading away),
8 Howe shall not the ministration of the Spirite be more glorious?
will not the ministry of the Spirit be even more glorious?
9 For if the ministerie of condemnation was glorious, much more doeth the ministration of righteousnesse exceede in glorie.
For if the ministry of condemnation was glorious, the ministry of righteousness abounds in glory even more.
10 For euen that which was glorified, was not glorified in this point, that is, as touching the exceeding glorie.
For what was once glorious now has no glory in comparison with the glory that surpasses it.
11 For if that which should be abolished, was glorious, much more shall that which remaineth, be glorious.
And if what was fading away came with glory, what remains will be even more glorious.
12 Seeing then that we haue such trust, we vse great boldnesse of speach.
Therefore, since we have such a hope, we act with great boldness.
13 And we are not as Moses, which put a vaile vpon his face, that the children of Israel should not looke vnto the ende of that which should be abolished.
We are not like Moses, who would put a veil over his face so that the sons of Israel would not gaze at the end of what was fading away.
14 Therefore their mindes are hardened: for vntill this day remaineth the same couering vntaken away in the reading of the olde Testament, which vaile in Christ is put away.
But their minds were hardened, for to this day the same veil remains unlifted when the old covenant is read. Only in Christ is this veil taken away.
15 But euen vnto this day, whe Moses is read, the vaile is laid ouer their hearts.
But to this day, when Moses is read, a veil lies over their hearts.
16 Neuertheles when their heart shall be turned to the Lord, the vaile shalbe taken away.
But whenever someone turns to the Lord, the veil is taken away.
17 Nowe the Lord is the Spirite, and where the Spirite of the Lord is, there is libertie.
Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom.
18 But we al behold as in a mirrour the glory of the Lord with open face, and are changed into the same image, from glorie to glorie, as by the Spirit of the Lord.
And we all, with unveiled faces reflecting the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from one degree of glory to another; this comes from the Lord, who is the Spirit.
