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?
Do we begin again to recommend ourselves? or do we need, as some do, recommendatory epistles 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,
Ye are our epistle, inscribed on our hearts, known and read by all men:
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.
being manifest that ye are the epistle of Christ, through our ministration, written not with ink, but by the Spirit of the living God; not on tables of stone, but on tables of the heart of flesh.
4 And such trust haue we through Christ to God:
And such confidence have we through Christ towards God:
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 can of ourselves reckon upon any thing as from ourselves, but our sufficiency is 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.
Who hath also fitted us to be ministers of the new covenant, not of the letter, but of the Spirit: for the letter killeth, but the Spirit giveth 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 ministration of death which was in writing, and engraven on stones, was so glorious that the children of Israel could not look stedfastly on the face of Moses, because of the lustre of his countenance, which was to be taken away:
8 Howe shall not the ministration of the Spirite be more glorious?
shall not the ministration of the Spirit be more glorious?
9 For if the ministerie of condemnation was glorious, much more doeth the ministration of righteousnesse exceede in glorie.
For if the ministration of condemnation was so glorious, much more doth the ministration of righteousness exceed in glory:
10 For euen that which was glorified, was not glorified in this point, that is, as touching the exceeding glorie.
since what was then made glorious was not in comparison glorious, because of the glory that surpasseth it.
11 For if that which should be abolished, was glorious, much more shall that which remaineth, be glorious.
For if that, which was to be taken away, came with glory, much more that which abideth is glorious.
12 Seeing then that we haue such trust, we vse great boldnesse of speach.
Having therefore such hope, we use much freedom of speech:
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.
and do not as Moses, who put a veil upon his face, intimating that the children of Israel could not look to the end of that which was to be abolished; but their minds were blinded:
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.
for unto this day the same veil remaineth unremoved in the reading of the old testament, which veil is taken away in Christ.
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, the veil is upon their heart.
16 Neuertheles when their heart shall be turned to the Lord, the vaile shalbe taken away.
Though when it turneth unto the Lord, the veil is taken off:
17 Nowe the Lord is the Spirite, and where the Spirite of the Lord is, there is libertie.
now the Lord is that Spirit; and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.
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.
But we all with unveiled face beholding, as in a glass, the glory of the Lord, are transformed according to the same image from glory to glory, as proceeding from the Spirit of the Lord.
