2 Corinthians 3
1 Are we beginning again to commend ourselves? Or do we need, as do some, letters of commendation to you or from you?
Do we begin again to commend ourselves? or do we need, as some, commendatory letters to you, or [commendatory] from you?
2 You are our letter, written in our hearts, known and read by all men,
Ye are our letter, written in our hearts, known and read of all men,
3 being revealed that you are a letter of Christ, served by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; not in tablets of stone, but in tablets that are hearts of flesh.
being manifested to be Christ's epistle ministered by us, written, not with ink, but [the] Spirit of [the] living God; not on stone tables, but on fleshy tables of [the] heart.
4 Such confidence we have through Christ toward God,
And such confidence have we through the Christ towards God:
5 not that we are sufficient of ourselves to account anything as from ourselves; but our sufficiency is from God,
not that we are competent of ourselves to think anything as of ourselves, but our competency [is] of God;
6 who also made us sufficient as servants of a new covenant, not of the letter but of the Spirit. For the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.
who has also made us competent, [as] ministers of [the] new covenant; not of letter, but of spirit. For the letter kills, but the Spirit quickens.
7 But if the service of death, written engraved on stones, came with glory, so that the children of Israel could not look steadfastly on the face of Moses for the glory of his face, which was passing away,
(But if the ministry of death, in letters, graven in stones, began with glory, so that the children of Israel could not fix their eyes on the face of Moses, on account of the glory of his face, [a glory] which is annulled;
8 will not service of the Spirit be with much more glory?
how shall not rather the ministry of the Spirit subsist in glory?
9 For if the service of condemnation has glory, the service of righteousness exceeds much more in glory.
For if the ministry of condemnation [be] glory, much rather the ministry of righteousness abounds in glory.
10 For most certainly that which has been made glorious has not been made glorious in this respect, by reason of the glory that surpasses.
For also that [which was] glorified is not glorified in this respect, on account of the surpassing glory.
11 For if that which passes away was with glory, much more that which remains is in glory.
For if that annulled [was introduced] with glory, much rather that which abides [subsists] in glory.
12 Having therefore such a hope, we use great boldness of speech,
Having therefore such hope, we use much boldness:
13 and not as Moses, who put a veil on his face so that the children of Israel would not look steadfastly on the end of that which was passing away.
and not according as Moses put a veil on his own face, so that the children of Israel should not fix their eyes on the end of that annulled.
14 But their minds were hardened, for until this very day at the reading of the old covenant the same veil remains, because in Christ it passes away.
But their thoughts have been darkened, for unto this day the same veil remains in reading the old covenant, unremoved, which in Christ is annulled.
15 But to this day, when Moses is read, a veil lies on their heart.
But unto this day, when Moses is read, the veil lies upon their heart.
16 But whenever someone turns to the Lord, the veil is taken away.
But when it shall turn 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.
Now the Lord is the Spirit, but where the Spirit of [the] Lord [is, there is] liberty.
18 But we all, with unveiled face seeing the glory of the Lord as in a mirror, are transformed into the same image from glory to glory, even as from the Lord, the Spirit.
But we all, looking on the glory of the Lord, with unveiled face, are transformed according to the same image from glory to glory, even as by [the] Lord [the] Spirit.
