2 Corinthians 3
1 Are we beginning to commend ourselves again? Or do we need, like some people, letters of recommendation to you or from you?
Doe we begin to praise our selues againe? or neede we as some other, epistles of recommendation vnto you, or letters of recommendation from you?
2 You yourselves are our letter, inscribed on our hearts, known and read by everyone.
Yee are our epistle, written in our hearts, which is vnderstand, and read of all men,
3 It is clear that you are a letter from Christ, the result of our ministry, written not with ink but with the Spirit of the living God, not on tablets of stone but on tablets of human hearts.
In that yee are manifest, to be the Epistle of Christ, ministred by vs, and written, not with yncke, but with the Spirite of the liuing God, not in tables of stone, but in fleshly tables of the heart.
4 Such confidence before God is ours through Christ.
And such trust haue we through Christ to God:
5 Not that we are competent in ourselves to claim that anything comes from us, but our competence comes from God.
Not that we are sufficient of our selues, to thinke any thing, as of our selues: but our sufficiencie is of God,
6 And He has qualified us as ministers of a new covenant, not of the letter but of the Spirit; for the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.
Who also hath made vs able ministers of the Newe testament, not of the letter, but of the Spirite: for the letter killeth, but the Spirite giueth life.
7 Now if the ministry of death, which was engraved in letters on stone, came with such glory that the Israelites could not gaze at the face of Moses because of its fleeting glory,
If then the ministration of death written with letters and ingrauen in stones, was glorious, so that the children of Israel coulde not beholde the face of Moses, for the glorie of his countenance (which glorie is done away.)
8 will not the ministry of the Spirit be even more glorious?
Howe shall not the ministration of the Spirite be more glorious?
9 For if the ministry of condemnation was glorious, how much more glorious is the ministry of righteousness!
For if the ministerie of condemnation was glorious, much more doeth the ministration of righteousnesse exceede in glorie.
10 Indeed, what was once glorious has no glory now in comparison to the glory that surpasses it.
For euen that which was glorified, was not glorified in this point, that is, as touching the exceeding glorie.
11 For if what was fading away came with glory, how much greater is the glory of that which endures!
For if that which should be abolished, was glorious, much more shall that which remaineth, be glorious.
12 Therefore, since we have such a hope, we are very bold.
Seeing then that we haue such trust, we vse great boldnesse of speach.
13 We are not like Moses, who would put a veil over his face to keep the Israelites from gazing at the end of what was fading away.
And we are not as Moses, which put a vaile vpon his face, that the children of Israel should not looke vnto the ende of that which should be abolished.
14 But their minds were closed. For to this day the same veil remains at the reading of the old covenant. It has not been lifted, because only in Christ can it be removed.
Therefore their mindes are hardened: for vntill this day remaineth the same couering vntaken away in the reading of the olde Testament, which vaile in Christ is put away.
15 And even to this day when Moses is read, a veil covers their hearts.
But euen vnto this day, whe Moses is read, the vaile is laid ouer their hearts.
16 But whenever anyone turns to the Lord, the veil is taken away.
Neuertheles when their heart shall be turned to the Lord, the vaile shalbe taken away.
17 Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom.
Nowe the Lord is the Spirite, and where the Spirite of the Lord is, there is libertie.
18 And we, who with unveiled faces all reflect the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into His image with intensifying glory, which comes from the Lord, who is the Spirit.
But we al behold as in a mirrour the glory of the Lord with open face, and are changed into the same image, from glorie to glorie, as by the Spirit of the Lord.
