2 Corinthians 3:1 - 3:18 | ASV

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¹Are we beginning again to commend ourselves? or need we, as do some, epistles of commendation to you or from you?

²Ye are our epistle, written in our hearts, known and read of all men;

³being 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 `that are' hearts of flesh.

⁴And such confidence have we through Christ to God-ward:

⁵not that we are sufficient of ourselves, to account anything as from ourselves; but our sufficiency is from God;

⁶who 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.

⁷But if the ministration of death, written, `and' 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 `glory' was passing away:

⁸how shall not rather the ministration of the spirit be with glory?

⁹For if the ministration of condemnation hath glory, much rather doth the ministration of righteousness exceed in glory.

¹⁰For verily that which hath been made glorious hath not been made glorious in this respect, by reason of the glory that surpasseth.

¹¹For if that which passeth away `was' with glory, much more that which remaineth `is' in glory.

¹²Having therefore such a hope, we use great boldness of speech,

¹³and `are' not as Moses, `who' put a veil upon his face, that the children of Israel should not look stedfastly on the end of that which was passing away:

¹⁴but their minds were hardened: for until this very day at the reading of the old covenant the same veil remaineth, it not being revealed `to them' that it is done away in Christ.

¹⁵But unto this day, whensoever Moses is read, a veil lieth upon their heart.

¹⁶But whensoever it shall turn to the Lord, the veil is taken away.

¹⁷Now the Lord is the Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord is, `there' is liberty.

¹⁸But 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.

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