< 2 Corinthians 3 >
1 Are we beginning again ourselves to commend? (Or *N(k)O*) surely not we need like some commendatory letters to you or from you (commendatory [letters]? *k*)
Do we begin again to recommend ourselves? or do we need, as some do, recommendatory epistles to you, or letters of recommendation from you?
2 The letter of us you yourselves are inscribed in the hearts of us, being known and being read by all men,
Ye are our epistle, inscribed on our hearts, known and read by all men:
3 being revealed that you are a letter of Christ having been ministered to by us inscribed not in ink but with [the] Spirit of God [the] living, not on tablets of stone but on tablets (of hearts *N(K)O*) human.
being manifest that ye are the epistle of Christ, through our ministration, written not with ink, but by the Spirit of the living God; not on tables of stone, but on tables of the heart of flesh.
4 Confidence now such we have through Christ toward God;
And such confidence have we through Christ towards God:
5 Not for from ourselves sufficient we are to reckon anything as of (ourselves, *NK(O)*) but the sufficiency of us [is] of God,
not that we can of ourselves reckon upon any thing as from ourselves, but our sufficiency is from God.
6 who also has made competent us [as] ministers of a new covenant, not of [the] letter but of [the] Spirit; the for letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.
Who hath also fitted us to be ministers of the new covenant, not of the letter, but of the Spirit: for the letter killeth, but the Spirit giveth life.
7 If now the ministry of death in (letters *NK(o)*) engraved (in *k*) stones was produced in glory, so as for not to be able to look intently the sons of Israel into the face of Moses on account of the glory of the face of him which is fading,
Now if the ministration of death which was in writing, and engraven on stones, was so glorious that the children of Israel could not look stedfastly on the face of Moses, because of the lustre of his countenance, which was to be taken away:
8 how surely more the ministry of the Spirit will be in glory?
shall not the ministration of the Spirit be more glorious?
9 If for (to the *N(k)O*) ministry of condemnation [was] glory, much more abounds the ministry of righteousness (in *k*) glory!
For if the ministration of condemnation was so glorious, much more doth the ministration of righteousness exceed in glory:
10 Even for (not *N(k)O*) has been glorified that glorified in this respect on account of the surpassing [it] glory.
since what was then made glorious was not in comparison glorious, because of the glory that surpasseth it.
11 If for that which is fading away [was] through glory, much more [is] that remaining in glory!
For if that, which was to be taken away, came with glory, much more that which abideth is glorious.
12 Having therefore such hope great boldness we use,
Having therefore such hope, we use much freedom of speech:
13 and not as Moses was putting a veil over the face (of himself *N(k)O*) for not to look intently the sons of Israel into the end of that fading away;
and do not as Moses, who put a veil upon his face, intimating that the children of Israel could not look to the end of that which was to be abolished; but their minds were blinded:
14 But were hardened the minds of them. Until for the present (day *no*) the same veil at the reading of the old covenant remains not being lifted, (for *N(k)O*) in Christ is being removed,
for unto this day the same veil remaineth unremoved in the reading of the old testament, which veil is taken away in Christ.
15 But unto this day when (ever *no*) (may be read *N(k)O*) Moses, a veil over the heart of them lies;
But to this day, when Moses is read, the veil is upon their heart.
16 When however (ever *N(k)O*) [one] shall have turned to [the] Lord, is taken away the veil.
Though when it turneth unto the Lord, the veil is taken off:
17 The now Lord the Spirit is; where now the Spirit of [the] Lord [is] (there *k*) [is] freedom.
now the Lord is that Spirit; and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.
18 We ourselves now all unveiled in face the glory of [the] Lord beholding as in a mirror, the same image are being transformed into from glory to glory even as from [the] Lord [the] Spirit.
But we all with unveiled face beholding, as in a glass, the glory of the Lord, are transformed according to the same image from glory to glory, as proceeding from the Spirit of the Lord.