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 to recommend ourselves? or do we need, as some do, recommendatory epistles to you, or letters of recommendation from you?
2 You are our letter, written in our hearts, known and read by all men,
Ye are our epistle, inscribed on our hearts, known and read by all men:
3 being revealed that you are a letter of Messiah, 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 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 Such confidence we have through Messiah towards God,
And such confidence have we 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 can of ourselves reckon upon any thing as from ourselves, but our sufficiency is from 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 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 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,
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 won’t service of the Spirit be with much more glory?
shall not the ministration of the Spirit be more glorious?
9 For if the service of condemnation has glory, the service of righteousness exceeds much more in glory.
For if the ministration of condemnation was so glorious, much more doth the ministration of righteousness exceed 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.
since what was then made glorious was not in comparison glorious, because of the glory that surpasseth it.
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 taken away, came with glory, much more that which abideth is glorious.
12 Having therefore such a hope, we use great boldness of speech,
Having therefore such hope, we use much freedom of speech:
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 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 But their minds were hardened, for until this very day at the reading of the old covenant the same veil remains, because in Messiah it passes 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 to this day, when Moses is read, a veil lies on their heart.
But to this day, when Moses is read, the veil is upon their heart.
16 But whenever someone turns to the Lord, the veil is taken away.
Though when it turneth unto the Lord, the veil is taken off:
17 Now the Lord is the Spirit; and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.
now the Lord is that 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, 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.
