2 Corinthians 3

1Do we begin again to commend ourselves? or need we, as some {others}, epistles of commendation to you, or {letters} of commendation from you?● 2Ye are our epistle written in our hearts, known and read of all men:● 3{Forasmuch as ye are} manifestly declared to be the epistle of Christ ministered by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; not in tables of stone, but in fleshy tables of the heart.● 4And such trust have we through Christ to God-ward:● 5Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think any thing as of ourselves; but our sufficiency {is} of God;● 6Who also hath made us able ministers of the new testament; not of the letter, but of the spirit: for the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life. {giveth life: or, quickeneth}● 7But if the ministration of death, written {and} engraven in stones, was glorious, so that the children of Israel could not stedfastly behold the face of Moses for the glory of his countenance; which {glory} was to be done away:● 8How shall not the ministration of the spirit be rather glorious?● 9For if the ministration of condemnation {be} glory, much more doth the ministration of righteousness exceed in glory.● 10For even that which was made glorious had no glory in this respect, by reason of the glory that excelleth.● 11For if that which is done away {was} glorious, much more that which remaineth {is} glorious.● 12Seeing then that we have such hope, we use great plainness of speech: {plainness: or, boldness}● 13And not as Moses, {which} put a vail over his face, that the children of Israel could not stedfastly look to the end of that which is abolished:● 14But their minds were blinded: for until this day remaineth the same vail untaken away in the reading of the old testament; which {vail} is done away in Christ.● 15But even unto this day, when Moses is read, the vail is upon their heart.● 16Nevertheless when it shall turn to the Lord, the vail shall be taken away.● 17Now the Lord is that Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord {is}, there {is} liberty.● 18But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, {even} as by the Spirit of the Lord. {by the...: or, of the Lord the Spirit}●