2 Corinthians 3
1 Are we beginning again to commend ourselves? Unless we need, as some men, commendatory letters to you or commendatory from you?
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 letter, written in our hearts, known and read by all men,
All of you are our epistle written in our hearts, known and read of all men:
3 being seen that ye are a letter of Christ, administered by us, written not in ink, but in the Spirit of the living God, not in stony tablets, but in fleshly tablets, in hearts.
Forasmuch as all of you are manifestly declared to be the epistle of Christ ministered by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit (pneuma) of the living God; not in tables of stone, but in fleshy tables of the heart.
4 And we have such confidence toward God through Christ,
And such trust have we through Christ toward God:
5 not that we are sufficient of ourselves to reckon anything as from ourselves, but our sufficiency is from God,
Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think any thing as of ourselves; but our sufficiency is of God;
6 who also made us qualified helpers of a new covenant, not of a document, but of a Spirit, for the document kills but the Spirit makes alive.
Who also has made us able ministers of the new testament; not of the letter, but of the spirit: (pneuma) for the letter kills, but the spirit (pneuma) gives life.
7 But if the administration of death in writings engraved on stones occurred in glory, so that the sons of Israel could not gaze upon the face of Moses because of the fading glory of his countenance,
But if the ministration of death, written and engraved in stones, was glorious, so that the children of Israel could not steadfastly behold the face of Moses for the glory of his countenance; which glory was to be done away:
8 how will the administration of the Spirit not be more in glory?
How shall not the ministration of the spirit (pneuma) be rather glorious?
9 For if the administration of condemnation has glory, the administration of righteousness excels much more in glory.
For if the ministration of condemnation be glory, much more does the ministration of righteousness exceed in glory.
10 For also that which has been glorified, has not been glorified in this regard, because of the glory that transcends.
For even that which was made glorious had no glory in this respect, by reason of the glory that excels.
11 For if that which is abolished was through glory, much more that which remains is in glory.
For if that which is done away was glorious, much more that which remains is glorious.
12 Having therefore such a hope we use great boldness,
Seeing then that we have such hope, we use great plainness of speech:
13 and are not as Moses. He put a veil over his face in order for the sons of Israel not to gaze on the end of the fading.
And not as Moses, which put a vail over his face, that the children of Israel could not steadfastly look to the end of that which is abolished:
14 But their minds were hardened, for to this day the same veil remains at the reading of the old testament, not being uncovered, which thing is abolished in Christ.
But their minds were blinded: for until this day remains the same vail untaken away in the reading of the old testament; which vail is done away in Christ.
15 But to this day when Moses is read, a veil lies upon their heart.
But even unto this day, when Moses is read, the vail is upon their heart.
16 But whenever it turns to the Lord, the veil is removed.
Nevertheless when it shall turn to the Lord, the vail shall be taken away.
17 Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.
Now the Lord is that Spirit: (pneuma) and where the Spirit (pneuma) of the Lord is, there is liberty.
18 But we all, with unveiled face seeing by reflection the glory of the Lord, are transformed into the same likeness from glory to glory, just as from the Spirit of the Lord.
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 (pneuma) of the LORD.
