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Book 47 2 Corinthians Chapter 003

 

003:001Do we begin again to commend ourselves? or need we, as some
others, epistles of commendation to you, or letters of
commendation from you?

 

003:002Ye are our epistle written in our hearts, known and read of
all men:

 

003:003Forasmuch 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.

 

003:004And such trust have we through Christ to God-ward:

 

003:005Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think any thing as
of ourselves; but our sufficiency is of God;

 

003:006Who 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.

 

003:007But 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:

 

003:008How shall not the ministration of the spirit be rather
glorious?

 

003:009For if the ministration of condemnation be glory, much more
doth the ministration of righteousness exceed in glory.

 

003:010For even that which was made glorious had no glory in this
respect, by reason of the glory that excelleth.

 

003:011For if that which is done away was glorious, much more that
which remaineth is glorious.

 

003:012Seeing then that we have such hope, we use great plainness of
speech:

 

003:013And 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:

 

003:014But 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.

 

003:015But even unto this day, when Moses is read, the vail is upon
their heart.

 

003:016Nevertheless when it shall turn to the Lord, the vail shall be
taken away.

 

003:017Now the Lord is that Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord
is, there is liberty.

 

003:018But 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.