“1 Do we begin again to commend ourselves? or need we, as some
[others], epistles of commendation to you, or [letters] of commendation
from you? 2 Ye are our epistle written in our hearts, known and read of
all men: 3 [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. 4 And such trust have we through Christ to God-ward: 5 Not that
we are sufficient of ourselves to think any thing as of ourselves; but
our sufficiency [is] of God;”
“6 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. 7 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: 8 How shall not the ministration of
the spirit be rather glorious? 9 For if the ministration of condemnation
[be] glory, much more doth the ministration of righteousness exceed in
glory. 10 For even that which was made glorious had no glory in this
respect, by reason of the glory that excelleth. 11 For if that which is
done away [was] glorious, much more that which remaineth [is] glorious.”
“12 Seeing then that we have such hope, we use great plainness of
speech: 13 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: 14 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. 15 But even unto this day, when Moses is read,
the vail is upon their heart. 16 Nevertheless when it shall turn to the
Lord, the vail shall be taken away. 17 Now the Lord is that Spirit: and
where the Spirit of the Lord [is], there [is] liberty. 18 But we all,
with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are
changed into the same image from glory to glory, [even] as by the Spirit
of the Lord.” (2 Corinthians 3:1-18 AV)
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