2 Corinthians 3
Ministers of a New Covenant
3Are we beginning to acommend ourselves again? Or do we need, as some, bletters of commendation to you or from you? 2aYou are our letter, having been written in our hearts, known and read by all men, 3being manifested that you are a letter of Christ, aministered to by us, having been written not with ink but with the Spirit of bthe living God, not on ctablets of stone but on dtablets of hearts of eflesh.
4And such aconfidence we have through Christ toward God. 5Not that we are sufficient in ourselves to consider anything as coming from ourselves, but aour sufficiency is from God, 6who also made us sufficient as aministers of a bnew covenant, not of cthe letter but of the Spirit; for the letter kills, but dthe Spirit gives life.
7But if the aministry of death, bin letters having been engraved on stones, came 1with glory, cso that the sons of Israel could not look intently at the face of Moses because of the glory of his face, which was being brought to an end, 8how will the ministry of the Spirit not be even more in glory? 9For if athe ministry of condemnation has glory, much more does the bministry of righteousness abound in glory. 10For indeed what had been glorious, in this case has no glory because of the glory that surpasses it. 11For if that which was being brought to an end was 1with glory, much more that which remains is in glory.
12aTherefore having such a hope, bwe use great boldness, 13and are not like Moses, awho used to put a veil over his face so that the sons of Israel would not look intently at the consequence of what was being brought to an end. 14But their minds were ahardened; for until this very day at the breading of cthe old covenant the same veil 1remains unlifted, because it is brought to an end in Christ. 15But to this day whenever Moses is read, a veil lies over their heart, 16but awhenever a person turns to the 1Lord, the veil is taken away. 17Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where athe Spirit of the Lord is, bthere is freedom. 18But we all, with unveiled face, abeholding as in a mirror the bglory of the Lord, are being ctransformed into the same image from glory to glory, just as from dthe Lord, the Spirit.