2 Corinthians 3
3
The New Covenant Ministry of the Spirit/Righteousness
1 Are we beginning to commend ourselves again? Or do we need, like some, commendatory letters to you or from you? 2 You are our letter, written in our hearts, known and read by all men,* 3 being manifested that you are a letter of Christ, ministered* by us, inscribed not with ink but with the Spirit of the living God, not on tablets of stone but on tablets of human hearts.
4 Now we have such confidence through Christ towards God. 5 Not that we are competent in ourselves to consider anything as from ourselves, but our competence is from God, 6 who also made us competent as ministers of a new covenant, not of the letter but of the Spirit; for the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.
7 Now if the ministry of death, engraved in letters on stones, was produced in glory, so that the sons of Israel were not able to gaze intently at the face of Moses because of the glory of his face, which was being nullified, 8 how will the ministry of the Spirit not be even more in glory? 9 For if there was glory in the ministry of condemnation, much more does the ministry of righteousness excel in glory? 10 For indeed what was glorious has no glory in this respect, because of the glory that exceeds it. 11 For if what was being nullified came* with glory, much more does that which remains exist* in glory?
12 Therefore, since we have such a hope, we use great boldness, 13 and not like Moses, who would put a veil over his face, so that the sons of Israel would not gaze intently at the end of that which was being nullified. 14 But their minds were hardened; for until the present day, the same veil remains at the reading of the old covenant, not being unveiled, because only* in Christ is it taken away 15 But to this day whenever Moses is read, a veil lies on their heart; 16 but when one turns to the Lord, the veil is taken away.
17 Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty. 18 And we all*, with unveiled face, beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory, just as from the Lord, the Spirit.
Notes
2 Or people, as the term is understood in a generic sense
3 Or delivered
11 The verb came is contextually supplied for clarity
11 The verb exist is contextually supplied for clarity
14 The word only is contextually supplied for clarity
18 One ancient Greek manuscript omits all
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2 Corinthians 3
3
The New Covenant Ministry of the Spirit/Righteousness
1 Are we beginning to commend ourselves again? Or do we need, like some, commendatory letters to you or from you? 2 You are our letter, written in our hearts, known and read by all men,* 3 being manifested that you are a letter of Christ, ministered* by us, inscribed not with ink but with the Spirit of the living God, not on tablets of stone but on tablets of human hearts.
4 Now we have such confidence through Christ towards God. 5 Not that we are competent in ourselves to consider anything as from ourselves, but our competence is from God, 6 who also made us competent as ministers of a new covenant, not of the letter but of the Spirit; for the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.
7 Now if the ministry of death, engraved in letters on stones, was produced in glory, so that the sons of Israel were not able to gaze intently at the face of Moses because of the glory of his face, which was being nullified, 8 how will the ministry of the Spirit not be even more in glory? 9 For if there was glory in the ministry of condemnation, much more does the ministry of righteousness excel in glory? 10 For indeed what was glorious has no glory in this respect, because of the glory that exceeds it. 11 For if what was being nullified came* with glory, much more does that which remains exist* in glory?
12 Therefore, since we have such a hope, we use great boldness, 13 and not like Moses, who would put a veil over his face, so that the sons of Israel would not gaze intently at the end of that which was being nullified. 14 But their minds were hardened; for until the present day, the same veil remains at the reading of the old covenant, not being unveiled, because only* in Christ is it taken away 15 But to this day whenever Moses is read, a veil lies on their heart; 16 but when one turns to the Lord, the veil is taken away.
17 Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty. 18 And we all*, with unveiled face, beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory, just as from the Lord, the Spirit.
Notes
2 Or people, as the term is understood in a generic sense
3 Or delivered
11 The verb came is contextually supplied for clarity
11 The verb exist is contextually supplied for clarity
14 The word only is contextually supplied for clarity
18 One ancient Greek manuscript omits all
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