2 Corinthians 3

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1. (2corin 3:1) Are we beginning again to commend ourselves? or need we, as do some, epistles of commendation to you or from you?
2. (2corin 3:2) Ye are our epistle, written in our hearts, known and read of all men;
3. (2corin 3:3) @@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 @9that are@7 hearts of flesh.
4. (2corin 3:4) And such confidence have we through Christ to God-ward:
5. (2corin 3:5) not that we are sufficient of ourselves, to account anything as from ourselves; but our sufficiency is from God;
6. (2corin 3:6) 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. (2corin 3:7) @@But if the ministration of death, written, @9and@7 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 @9glory@7 was passing away:
8. (2corin 3:8) how shall not rather the ministration of the spirit be with glory?
9. (2corin 3:9) For if the ministration of condemnation hath glory, much rather doth the ministration of righteousness exceed in glory.
10. (2corin 3:10) For verily that which hath been made glorious hath not been made glorious in this respect, by reason of the glory that surpasseth.
11. (2corin 3:11) @@For if that which passeth away @9was@7 with glory, much more that which remaineth @9is@7 in glory.
12. (2corin 3:12) Having therefore such a hope, we use great boldness of speech,
13. (2corin 3:13) @@and @9are@7 not as Moses, @9who@7 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. (2corin 3:14) @@but their minds were hardened: for until this very day at the reading of the old covenant the same veil remaineth, it not being revealed @9to them@7 that it is done away in Christ.
15. (2corin 3:15) But unto this day, whensoever Moses is read, a veil lieth upon their heart.
16. (2corin 3:16) But whensoever it shall turn to the Lord, the veil is taken away.
17. (2corin 3:17) @@Now the Lord is the Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord is, @9there@7 is liberty.
18. (2corin 3:18) But we all, with unveiled face beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are transformed into the same image from glory to glory, even as from the Lord the Spirit.