2 Corinthians 3:6–18

⁶He has made us competent to be ministers of a new covenant, ⁿnot of the letter, ^obut of the Spirit. For the letter kills, but the Spirit produces life.

New Covenant Ministry

⁷Now if the ministry of death, chiseled in letters on stones, came with glory, ^pso that the Israelites were not able to look directly at Moses’ face because of the glory from his face—a fading glory— ⁸how will the ministry of the Spirit not be more glorious? ⁹For if the ministry of condemnation had glory, the ministry of righteousness overflows with even more glory. ¹⁰In fact, what had been glorious is not glorious now by comparison because of the glory that surpasses it. ¹¹For if what was fading away ^qwas glorious, what endures will be even more glorious.

¹²Therefore, having such a hope, ^rwe use great boldness. ¹³We are not like Moses, who used to put a veil over his face ^sso that the Israelites could not stare at the end of what was fading away, ¹⁴but their minds were closed. ^tuFor to this day, at the reading of the old covenant, ^vthe same veil remains; it is not lifted, because it is set aside only in Christ. ^w15Even to this day, whenever Moses is read, a veil lies over their hearts, ¹⁶but whenever a person turns ^xto the Lord, the veil is removed. ^y17Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom. ¹⁸We all, with unveiled faces, are looking as in a mirror at ^zathe glory of the Lord ^band are being transformed ^cinto the same image ^dfrom glory to glory; ^ethis is from the Lord who is the Spirit. ^f