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2 Corinthians, Chapter 3

¹ Are we beginning to commend ourselves again? Or do we need, as some, letters of commendation to you or from you? ² You are our letter, written in our hearts, known and read by all men; ³ being manifested that you are a letter of Christ,^a Lit servedcared for by us, written not with ink but with the Spirit of the living God, not on tablets of stone but on tablets of^b Lit hearts of fleshhuman hearts.	1 Co2 5:12 Co2 10:12 Co2 10:18 Co2 12:11 Act 18:27 Co1 16:3 2 Co1 9:2 3 Co2 3:6 Mat 16:16 Exo 24:12 Exo 31:18 Exo 32:15 Co2 3:7 Pro 3:3 Pro 7:3 Jer 17:1 Jer 31:33 Eze 11:19 Eze 36:26
⁴ Such confidence we have through Christ toward God. ⁵ Not that we are adequate in ourselves to consider anything as coming from ourselves, but our adequacy is from God, ⁶ who also made us adequate as servants of a new covenant, not of the letter but of the Spirit; for the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.	4 Eph 3:12 5 Co1 15:10 6 Co1 3:5 Jer 31:31 Luk 22:20 Rom 2:29 Joh 6:63 Rom 7:6
⁷ But if the ministry of death, in letters engraved on stones, came^c Or in glorywith glory, so that the sons of Israel could not look intently at the face of Moses because of the glory of his face, fading as it was, ⁸ how will the ministry of the Spirit fail to be even more with glory? ⁹ For if the ministry of condemnation has glory, much more does the ministry of righteousness abound in glory. ¹⁰ For indeed what had glory, in this case has no glory because of the glory that surpasses it. ¹¹ For if that which fades away was^d Lit throughwith glory, much more that which remains is in glory.	7 Rom 4:15 Rom 5:20 Rom 7:5 Co2 3:9 Gal 3:10 Gal 3:21 Exo 24:12 Exo 31:18 Exo 32:15 Co2 3:3 Exo 34:29-35 Co2 3:13 9 Deu 27:26 Co2 3:7 Heb 12:18-21 Rom 1:17 Rom 3:21
¹² Therefore having such a hope, we use great boldness in our speech, ¹³ and are not like Moses, who used to put a veil over his face so that the sons of Israel would not look intently at the end of what was fading away. ¹⁴ But their minds were hardened; for until this very day at the reading of the old covenant the same veil^eremains unlifted, because it is removed in Christ. ¹⁵ But to this day whenever Moses is read, a veil lies over their heart; ¹⁶ but whenever a person turns to the Lord, the veil is taken away. ¹⁷ Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty. ¹⁸ But we all, with unveiled face, beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory, just as from the Lord, the Spirit.	12 Co2 7:4 Act 4:13 Act 4:29 Co2 7:4 Eph 6:19 Th1 2:2 13 Exo 34:33-35 Co2 3:7 14 Rom 11:7 Co2 4:4 Act 13:15 Co2 3:6 16 Exo 34:34 Rom 11:23 17 Isa 61:1 Gal 4:6 Joh 8:32 Gal 5:1 Gal 5:13 18 Co1 13:12 Joh 17:22 Joh 17:24 Co2 4:4 Co2 4:6 Rom 8:29 Co2 3:17


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