1Do we begin again to commend ourselves? or need we, as some others, epistles of commendation to you, or letters of commendation from you?
2Do we begin again to commend ourselves? or need we, as some others, epistles of commendation to you, or letters of commendation from you?
3Ye are our epistle written in our hearts, known and read of all men:
4Ye are our epistle written in our hearts, known and read of all men:
5Forasmuch 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.
6Forasmuch 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.
7And such trust have we through Christ to God-ward:
8And such trust have we through Christ to God-ward:
9Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think any thing as of ourselves; but our sufficiency is of God;
10Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think any thing as of ourselves; but our sufficiency is of God;
11Who 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.
12Who 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.
13But 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:
14But 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:
15How shall not the ministration of the spirit be rather glorious?
16How shall not the ministration of the spirit be rather glorious?
17For if the ministration of condemnation be glory, much more doth the ministration of righteousness exceed in glory.
18For if the ministration of condemnation be glory, much more doth the ministration of righteousness exceed in glory.
19For even that which was made glorious had no glory in this respect, by reason of the glory that excelleth.
20For even that which was made glorious had no glory in this respect, by reason of the glory that excelleth.
21For if that which is done away was glorious, much more that which remaineth is glorious.
22For if that which is done away was glorious, much more that which remaineth is glorious.
23Seeing then that we have such hope, we use great plainness of speech:
24Seeing then that we have such hope, we use great plainness of speech:
25And 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:
26And 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:
27But 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.
28But 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.
29But even unto this day, when Moses is read, the vail is upon their heart.
30But even unto this day, when Moses is read, the vail is upon their heart.
31Nevertheless when it shall turn to the Lord, the vail shall be taken away.
32Nevertheless when it shall turn to the Lord, the vail shall be taken away.
33Now the Lord is that Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.
34Now the Lord is that Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.
35But 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.
36But 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.