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?
Are we beginning again to recommend ourselves? Or do we need, like some others, letters of recommendation to you, or letters of recommendation from you?
2 Yee are our epistle, written in our hearts, which is vnderstand, and read of all men,
Ye 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.
since ye are manifestly shown to be a letter of Christ by means of our service, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; not on tablets of stone, but on fleshly tablets of the heart.
4 And such trust haue we through Christ to God:
And such confidence as this have we through 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 think 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 also gave us ability to be ministers of a new covenant, not of the letter, but of the Spirit; for the letter killeth, but the Spirit giveth life.
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.)
But if the ministration of death, engraven in letters on stones, was so glorious, that the children of Israel could not look steadfastly on the face of Moses by reason of the glory of his countenance, which glory was to be done away,
8 Howe shall not the ministration of the Spirite be more glorious?
shall not the ministration of the Spirit be much more glorious?
9 For if the ministerie of condemnation was glorious, much more doeth the ministration of righteousnesse exceede in glorie.
For if the ministration of condemnation had glory, much greater is the glory of the ministration of righteousness.
10 For euen that which was glorified, was not glorified in this point, that is, as touching the exceeding glorie.
For even that which was made glorious hath ceased to be glorious in this respect, by reason of the glory by which it is exceeded.
11 For if that which should be abolished, was glorious, much more shall that which remaineth, be glorious.
For if that which was to be done away was glorious, much more glorious is that which endureth.
12 Seeing then that we haue such trust, we vse great boldnesse of speach.
Having therefore 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 veil over his face, that the children of Israel might not steadfastly look on the end of that which was to be done away.
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 understandings were blinded; for until this day, when the old covenant is read, the same veil remaineth, since it is not unveiled to them that it is done away in Christ;
15 But euen vnto this day, whe Moses is read, the vaile is laid ouer their hearts.
but even till this day, when Moses is read, there lieth a veil upon their heart;
16 Neuertheles when their heart shall be turned to the Lord, the vaile shalbe taken away.
but whenever it turneth to the Lord, the veil is 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.
But we all with unveiled face beholding in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, as by the Lord, the Spirit.
