2Corinthians 3

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(2co 3:1) Do we begin again to commend ourselves? or need we, as some {others}, epistles of commendation to you, or {letters} of commendation from you?
(2co 3:2) Ye are our epistle written in our hearts, known and read of all men:
(2co 3:3) {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.
(2co 3:4) And such trust have we through Christ to God-ward:
(2co 3:5) Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think any thing as of ourselves; but our sufficiency {is} of God;
(2co 3:6) Who 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.
(2co 3:7) But 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:
(2co 3:8) How shall not the ministration of the spirit be rather glorious?
(2co 3:9) For if the ministration of condemnation {be} glory, much more doth the ministration of righteousness exceed in glory.
(2co 3:10) For even that which was made glorious had no glory in this respect, by reason of the glory that excelleth.
(2co 3:11) For if that which is done away {was} glorious, much more that which remaineth {is} glorious.
(2co 3:12) Seeing then that we have such hope, we use great plainness of speech:
(2co 3:13) And 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:
(2co 3:14) But 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.
(2co 3:15) But even unto this day, when Moses is read, the vail is upon their heart.
(2co 3:16) Nevertheless when it shall turn to the Lord, the vail shall be taken away.
(2co 3:17) Now the Lord is that Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord {is}, there {is} liberty.
(2co 3:18) But 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.
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