2 Corinthians 3
1 Are we beginning again to commend ourselves? Or do we need, as do some, letters of commendation to you or 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 You are our letter, written in our hearts, known and read by all men,
You are our letter, written in our hearts, known and read by all men;
3 being revealed that you are a letter of Messiah, served by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; not in tablets of stone, but in tablets that are hearts of flesh.
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 Such confidence we have through Messiah toward God,
Now, confidence such as this we have, through the Christ, toward God;
5 not that we are sufficient of ourselves to account anything as from ourselves; but our sufficiency is from God,
not that we are able, of ourselves, to devise anything, as from ourselves; but our ability is from God,
6 who also made us sufficient as servants of a new covenant, not of the letter but of the Spirit. For the letter kills, but the Spirit gives 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 But if the service of death, written engraved on stones, came with glory, so that the children of Israel could not look steadfastly on the face of Moses for the glory of his face, which was passing 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 won’t service of the Spirit be with much more glory?
how shall not the ministering of the spirit be more glorious?
9 For if the service of condemnation has glory, the service of righteousness exceeds much more in glory.
For if the ministering of condemnation be glory, much more does the ministering of righteousness surpass in glory.
10 For most certainly that which has been made glorious has not been made glorious in this respect, by reason of the glory that surpasses.
For that which was made glorious had no glory in this respect, because of the glory that surpasses.
11 For if that which passes away was with glory, much more that which remains is in glory.
For if that which was to come to an end was glorious, much more that which is to remain is glorious.
12 Having therefore such a hope, we use great boldness of speech,
Since then we have such hope, we use great plainness of speech,
13 and not as Moses, who put a veil on his face so that the children of Israel wouldn’t look steadfastly on the end of that which was passing away.
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 But their minds were hardened, for until this very day at the reading of the old covenant the same veil remains, because in Messiah it passes 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 to this day, when Moses is read, a veil lies on their heart.
But to this day, when Moses is read, the vail is upon their heart:
16 But whenever someone turns to the Lord, the veil is taken away.
but whenever their heart shall turn to the Lord, the vail shall be taken away.
17 Now the Lord is the Spirit; and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.
Now the Lord is the Spirit; and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.
18 But we all, with unveiled face seeing the glory of the Lord as in a mirror, are transformed into the same image from glory to glory, even as from the Lord, the Spirit.
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.
