2 Corinthians 3
1 Are we beginning again ourselves to commend? (Or *N+kO) surely not we need like some commendatory letters to you or from you (commendatory [letters]? *k)
Are we beginning again to commend ourselves? or need we, as do some, epistles of commendation to you or from you?
2 The letter of us you yourselves are inscribed in the hearts of us, being known and being 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 having been ministered to by us inscribed not in ink but with [the] Spirit of God [the] living, not on tablets of stone but on tablets (of hearts *N+KO) human.
being made manifest that ye are an 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 tables [that are] hearts of flesh.
4 Confidence now such we have through Christ toward God;
And such confidence have we through Christ to God-ward:
5 Not for from ourselves sufficient we are to reckon anything as of (ourselves, *NK+O) but the sufficiency of us [is] of God,
not that we are sufficient of ourselves, to account anything as from ourselves; but our sufficiency is from God;
6 who also has made competent us [as] ministers of a new covenant, not of [the] letter but of [the] Spirit; the for letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.
who also made us sufficient as ministers of a new covenant; not of the letter, but of the spirit: for the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life.
7 If now the ministry of death in (letters *NK+o) engraved (in *k) stones was produced in glory, so as for not to be able to look intently the sons of Israel into the face of Moses on account of the glory of the face of him which is fading,
But if the ministration of death, written, [and] engraven on stones, came with glory, so that the children of Israel could not look stedfastly upon the face of Moses for the glory of his face; which [glory] was passing away:
8 how surely more the ministry of the Spirit will be in glory?
how shall not rather the ministration of the spirit be with glory?
9 If for (to the *N+kO) ministry of condemnation [was] glory, much more abounds the ministry of righteousness (in *k) glory!
For if the ministration of condemnation is glory, much rather doth the ministration of righteousness exceed in glory.
10 Even for (not *N+kO) has been glorified that glorified in this respect on account of the surpassing [it] glory.
For verily that which hath been made glorious hath not been made glorious in this respect, by reason of the glory that surpasseth.
11 If for that which is fading away [was] through glory, much more [is] that remaining in glory!
For if that which passeth away [was] with glory, much more that which remaineth [is] in glory.
12 Having therefore such hope great boldness we use,
Having therefore such a hope, we use great boldness of speech,
13 and not as Moses was putting a veil over the face (of himself *N+kO) for not to look intently the sons of Israel into the end of that fading away;
and [are] not as Moses, [who] put a veil upon his face, that the children of Israel should not look stedfastly on the end of that which was passing away:
14 But were hardened the minds of them. Until for the present (day *no) the same veil at the reading of the old covenant remains not being lifted, (for *N+kO) in Christ is being removed,
but their minds were hardened: for until this very day at the reading of the old covenant the same veil remaineth unlifted; which [veil] is done away in Christ.
15 But unto this day when (ever *no) (may be read *N+kO) Moses, a veil over the heart of them lies;
But unto this day, whensoever Moses is read, a veil lieth upon their heart.
16 When however (ever *N+kO) [one] shall have turned to [the] Lord, is taken away the veil.
But whensoever it shall turn to the Lord, the veil is taken away.
17 The now Lord the Spirit is; where now the Spirit of [the] Lord [is] (there *k) [is] freedom.
Now the Lord is the Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord is, [there] is liberty.
18 We ourselves now all unveiled in face the glory of [the] Lord beholding as in a mirror, the same image are being transformed into from glory to glory even as from [the] Lord [the] Spirit.
But we all, with unveiled face reflecting as a mirror the glory of the Lord, are transformed into the same image from glory to glory, even as from the Lord the Spirit.
