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 begin again anew to show who we are? or do we need as others to write epistles of commendation to you concerning ourselves, or that you should write to commend us?
2 You are our letter, written in our hearts, known and read by all men,
But you yourselves are our epistle, written in our hearts, and known and read of every man.
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.
For you know that you are an epistle of the Meshiha, who hath been ministered by us; written, not with ink but by the Spirit of Aloha the Living; not on tablets of stone, but on the fleshly tablets of the heart.
4 Such confidence we have through Christ toward God,
BUT such confidence we have through the Meshiha toward Aloha.
5 not that we are sufficient of ourselves to account anything as from ourselves; but our sufficiency is from God,
For we are not sufficient to think any thing as of ourselves; but our power is from Aloha,
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 hath made us fit to be ministers of the new covenant, not in the writing, but in the spirit. For the writing killeth, but the Spirit maketh 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 ministry of death in the writing engraven on stones was with glory, as that the sons of Israel could not look on the face of Musha because of the glory of his face which is abolished,
8 won’t service of the Spirit be with much more glory?
how much more then doth not the ministry Of the Spirit excel in glory?
9 For if the service of condemnation has glory, the service of righteousness exceeds much more in glory.
For if the ministry of condemnation was glorious, how much more doth not the ministry of justification excel 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 that which was glorified had no glory, in comparison of this excelling glory.
11 For if that which passes away was with glory, much more that which remains is in glory.
For if that which was abolished was with glory, how much more shall that which endureth be with glory?
12 Having therefore such a hope, we use great boldness of speech,
Therefore because we have this hope, we speak the more boldly,
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 Musha, who threw the veil upon his face, that the sons of Israel might not look upon the End of that which was to be abolished.
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 they are blinded in their minds unto this day. For when the old covenant is read, that very veil standeth upon them, nor is it apparent (to them) that in the Meshiha it hath been abolished.
15 But to this day, when Moses is read, a veil lies on their heart.
And unto this day, when Musha is read, the veil is thrown upon their heart.
16 But whenever someone turns to the Lord, the veil is taken away.
And when any one of them is converted unto the Lord, the veil from him is uplifted.
17 Now the Lord is the Spirit; and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.
But the Lord himself is the Spirit; and where the Spirit of the Lord, (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 disclosed faces behold the glory of the Lord as in a mirror, and into the resemblance of it are changed from brightness to brightness, as by the Lord the Spirit.
