The Bible

2 Corinthians Chapter 3

¹Are we beginning again to commend ourselves? Or do we need, as do some, letters of commendation to you or from you?

²You are our letter, written in our hearts, known and read by all men, ³being revealed that you are a letter of the AnointedOne, 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.

⁴Such confidence we have through the AnointedOne toward God, ⁵not that we are sufficient of ourselves, to account anything as from ourselves; but our sufficiency is from God, ⁶who 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.

⁷But 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, ⁸won't service of the Spirit be with much more glory?

⁹For if the service of condemnation has glory, the service of righteousness exceeds much more in glory.

¹⁰For most certainly what has been made glorious has not been made glorious in this respect, by reason of the glory that surpasses.

¹¹For if what passes away was with glory, much more what remains is in glory.

¹²So having such a hope, we use great boldness of speech, ¹³and not as Moses, who put a veil on his face, that the children of Israel wouldn't look steadfastly on the end of what was passing away.

¹⁴But their minds were hardened, for until this very day at the reading of the old covenant the same veil remains, because in the AnointedOne it passes away.

¹⁵But to this day, when Moses is read, a veil lies on their heart.

¹⁶But whenever someone turns to ForeverOne, the veil is taken away.

¹⁷Now ForeverOne is the Spirit and where the Spirit of ForeverOne is, there is liberty.

¹⁸But we all, with unveiled face seeing the glory of ForeverOne as in a mirror, are transformed into the same image from glory to glory, even as from ForeverOne, the Spirit.