[2 Corinthians 3]

 

             ^3:1 Are we beginning again to commend ourselves? As if we have no need, as some people, letters of commendation to you^° or ones of commendation from you^°? ^3:2 You^° are our letter, having been inscribed in our hearts, being known and being read by all men; ^3:3 being manifested that you^° are a letter of Christ, was served by us, not having been inscribed with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; not in tablets of stone, but in tablets in fleshly hearts. ^3:4 Now we have such confidence through the Christ toward God; ^3:5 not that we are sufficient from ourselves, to reason anything as out-of ourselves, but our sufficiency is from God; ^3:6 who also made us sufficient to be servants of a new covenant^*; not from the writing, but from the Spirit; for^* the writing kills, but the Spirit makes^* us alive. ^3:7 But if the service of death in scriptures engraved on stones happened inthe sons of Israel are not able to stare at the face of Moses because of the glory of his countenance, the glory which was being done-away-with. ^3:8 How will the service of the Spirit not rather be in glory? ^3:9 For^* if the service of the condemnation had glory, how much rather is the service of the righteousness abounding in glory. ^3:10 For^* even also the thing which has been glorified, has not been glorified in this respect, because of the glory which surpasses it. ^3:11 For^* if the thing is being done-away was through glory, the thing remaining is much more in glory.

{i.e., The old covenant given by Moses has been covered and removed by the new covenant.}

             ^3:12 Therefore, having such a hope, we are using it in much boldness, ^3:13 and are not just-as Moses, who was placing a veil upon his face, ^*that^* the sons of Israel might not stare at the end of the thing being done-away-with. {Exo 34:33} ^3:14 But their minds were hardened; for^* till today, the same veil remains upon the public-reading of the old covenant^*, not being unveiled, something which is done-away in Christ. ^3:15 But until this day, whenever Moses is read, a veil is laying upon their heart. ^3:16 But whenever it turns to the Lord, the veil is taken-away. ^3:17 Now the Lord is the Spirit and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom. ^3:18 But we all, with unveiled face seeing the reflection of the glory of the Lord, are being transfigured into the same image from glory into glory, just-as from the Lord and the Spirit.