2 Corinthians 3
1 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?
Do we begin again to commend ourselves? or do we need, as some do, letters of commendation to you, or letters of commendation from you?
2 Yee are our epistle, written in our hearts, which is vnderstand, and read of all men,
You are our letter, written in our hearts, known and read by all men;
3 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.
you are well known to be a letter of Christ, written by us as his ministers, not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God, not in tables of stone, but in fleshy tables of the heart.
4 And such trust haue we through Christ to God:
Now, confidence such as this we have, through the Christ, toward God;
5 Not that we are sufficient of our selues, to thinke any thing, as of our selues: but our sufficiencie is of God,
not that we are able, of ourselves, to devise anything, as from ourselves; but our ability is from God,
6 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.
who has made us able ministers of the new covenant, not of letter, but of spirit: for the letter kills, but the spirit makes alive.
7 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.)
For if the ministering of death, by means of a covenant that was written and engraven in stones, was glorious, so that the sons of Israel could not look steadily at the face of Moses, on account of the glory of his face, which glory was to come to an end:
8 Howe shall not the ministration of the Spirite be more glorious?
how shall not the ministering of the spirit be more glorious?
9 For if the ministerie of condemnation was glorious, much more doeth the ministration of righteousnesse exceede in glorie.
For if the ministering of condemnation be glory, much more does the ministering of righteousness surpass in glory.
10 For euen that which was glorified, was not glorified in this point, that is, as touching the exceeding glorie.
For that which was made glorious had no glory in this respect, because of the glory that surpasses.
11 For if that which should be abolished, was glorious, much more shall that which remaineth, be glorious.
For if that which was to come to an end was glorious, much more that which is to remain is glorious.
12 Seeing then that we haue such trust, we vse great boldnesse of speach.
Since then we have such hope, we use great plainness of speech,
13 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.
and do not as Moses did, who put a vail over his face, so that the sons of Israel could not steadily look to the end of that which was to come to an end.
14 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.
But their minds were blinded: for till this day, in the reading of the old covenant, the same vail remains not taken away, which vail is removed in Christ.
15 But euen vnto this day, whe Moses is read, the vaile is laid ouer their hearts.
But to this day, when Moses is read, the vail is upon their heart:
16 Neuertheles when their heart shall be turned to the Lord, the vaile shalbe taken away.
but whenever their heart shall turn to the Lord, the vail shall be taken away.
17 Nowe the Lord is the Spirite, and where the Spirite of the Lord is, there is libertie.
Now the Lord is the Spirit; and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.
18 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.
And we all, with unvailed face, reflecting the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image, from glory to glory, even as by the Lord the Spirit.
