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?
Do we begin again anew to show who we are? or do we need as others to write epistles of commendation to you concerning ourselves, or that you should write to commend us?
2 You yourselves are our letter, inscribed on our hearts, known and read by everyone.
But you yourselves are our epistle, written in our hearts, and known and read of every man.
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.
For you know that you are an epistle of the Meshiha, who hath been ministered by us; written, not with ink but by the Spirit of Aloha the Living; not on tablets of stone, but on the fleshly tablets of the heart.
4 Such confidence before God is ours through Christ.
BUT such confidence we have through the Meshiha toward Aloha.
5 Not that we are competent in ourselves to claim that anything comes from us, but our competence comes from God.
For we are not sufficient to think any thing as of ourselves; but our power is from Aloha,
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 hath made us fit to be ministers of the new covenant, not in the writing, but in the spirit. For the writing killeth, but the Spirit maketh alive.
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,
But if the ministry of death in the writing engraven on stones was with glory, as that the sons of Israel could not look on the face of Musha because of the glory of his face which is abolished,
8 will not the ministry of the Spirit be even more glorious?
how much more then doth not the ministry Of the Spirit excel in glory?
9 For if the ministry of condemnation was glorious, how much more glorious is the ministry of righteousness!
For if the ministry of condemnation was glorious, how much more doth not the ministry of justification excel in glory?
10 Indeed, what was once glorious has no glory now in comparison to the glory that surpasses it.
For that which was glorified had no glory, in comparison of this excelling glory.
11 For if what was fading away came with glory, how much greater is the glory of that which endures!
For if that which was abolished was with glory, how much more shall that which endureth be with glory?
12 Therefore, since we have such a hope, we are very bold.
Therefore because we have this hope, we speak the more boldly,
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 (are) not as Musha, who threw the veil upon his face, that the sons of Israel might not look upon the End of that which was to 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.
But they are blinded in their minds unto this day. For when the old covenant is read, that very veil standeth upon them, nor is it apparent (to them) that in the Meshiha it hath been abolished.
15 And even to this day when Moses is read, a veil covers their hearts.
And unto this day, when Musha is read, the veil is thrown upon their heart.
16 But whenever anyone turns to the Lord, the veil is taken away.
And when any one of them is converted unto the Lord, the veil from him is uplifted.
17 Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom.
But the Lord himself is the Spirit; and where the Spirit of the Lord, (there) is liberty.
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 all with disclosed faces behold the glory of the Lord as in a mirror, and into the resemblance of it are changed from brightness to brightness, as by the Lord the Spirit.
