2 Corinthians 3:18
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(3v1) Do we begin again to commend ourselves? or need we, as some
others, epistles of commendation to you, or letters of
commendation from you? (3v2) Ye are our epistle written in our hearts, known and read of all
men: (3v3) Forasmuch as ye are manifestly declared to be the
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 fleshy tables of the heart.
(3v4) And such trust have we through Christ to God-ward: (3v5) Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think any thing as of
ourselves; but our sufficiency is of God; (3v6) Who also hath made us able ministers of the new testament; not
of the letter, but of the spirit: for the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life.
(3v7) But if the ministration of death, written and
engraven in stones, was glorious, so that the children of Israel could not stedfastly behold the
face of Moses for the glory of his countenance; which glory was to be done
away: (3v8) How shall not the ministration of the spirit be rather glorious? (3v9) For if the ministration of condemnation be glory,
much more doth the ministration of righteousness exceed in glory.
(3v10) For even that which was made glorious had no glory in this
respect, by reason of the glory that excelleth.
(3v11) For if that which is done away was glorious,
much more that which remaineth is glorious.
(3v12) Seeing then that we have such hope, we use great plainness of
speech: (3v13) And not as Moses, which put a vail over his face,
that the children of Israel could not stedfastly look to the end of that which is abolished: (3v14) But their minds were blinded: for until this day remaineth the
same vail untaken away in the reading of the old testament; which vail is done
away in Christ.
(3v15) But even unto this day, when Moses is read, the vail is upon
their heart.
(3v16) Nevertheless when it shall turn to the Lord, the vail shall be
taken away.
(3v17) Now the Lord is that Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord
is, there is liberty.
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