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2 Corinthians 3

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3Do we begin again to acommend ourselves? or need we, as bsome others, cepistles of commendation to you, or letters of commendation from you? 2dYe are our epistle written in our hearts, eknown and read of all men: 3Forasmuch as ye are manifestly declared to be the epistle of Christ fministered by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of gthe living God; not in htables of stone, but iin fleshy tables of the heart. 4And such jtrust have we through Christ to God-ward: 5kNot that we are sufficient of ourselves to think any thing as of ourselves; but lour sufficiency is of God; 6Who also hath made us able dmministers of nthe new nntestament; not of othe letter, but of the spirit: for pthe letter killeth, but qthe spirit ||giveth life. 7But if pthe ministration of death, hwritten and engraven in stones, rwas glorious, rso that the children of Israel could not sstedfastly behold the face of Moses for tthe glory of his countenance; which glory was to be udone away: 8How shall not the ministration of the spirit be rather glorious? 9For if vthe ministration of condemnation be glory, much more doth wthe ministration of righteousness exceed in glory. 10For even that which was made glorious xhad no glory yin this respect, by reason of the glory that excelleth. 11For if that which is udone away was glorious, much more that which remaineth is glorious. 12Seeing then that we have such hope, zwe use great ||plainness of speech: 13And not as Moses, rwhich put a vail over his face, that the children of Israel could not sstedfastly look to athe end of that which is uabolished: 14But btheir cminds were dblinded: for until this day remaineth the same vail untaken away ein the reading of fthe old testament; which vail is udone away in Christ. 15But even unto this day, ewhen Moses is read, the vail is upon their heart. 16Nevertheless gwhen it shall turn to the Lord, hthe vail shall be taken away. 17Now ithe Lord is that Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord is, jthere is liberty. 18But we all, with open face kbeholding as in a glass lthe glory of the Lord, mare nchanged into the same image ofrom glory to glory, even as ||by the Spirit of the Lord.

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Footnotes

  1. ach. 5:12. & 10:12, 18. & 12:11. See Rom. 16:1.
  2. bComp. ch. 11:4.
  3. cComp. Acts 18:27.
  4. d1 Cor. 9:2. So ver. 6.
  5. eActs 8:30 (Gk.).
  6. fSo 1 Cor. 3:5.
  7. gSee Ps. 42:2.
  8. hEx. 24:12. & 34:1. Deut. 10:1. ver. 7.
  9. iSee Prov. 3:3. & Jer. 31:33.
  10. jEph. 3:12 (Gk.).
  11. kch. 2:16.
  12. lSee 1 Cor. 15:10.
  13. d1 Cor. 9:2. So ver. 6.
  14. mch. 6:4. & 11:23. Eph. 3:7. Col. 1:23, 25. So ch. 4:1. & 5:18. 1 Tim. 1:12.
  15. nSee Jer. 31:31. Comp. ver. 14.
  16. nnSee Gal. 3:15.
  17. oSee Rom. 2:27.
  18. pSee Rom. 4:15.
  19. qJohn 6:63. So Rom. 8:2. 1 Pet. 3:18. Comp. ver. 17.
  20. ||Or, quickeneth. John 5:21. & 6:63. Rom. 4:17. & 8:11. 1 Cor. 15:36, 45. 1 Tim. 6:13. 1 Pet. 3:18.
  21. pSee Rom. 4:15.
  22. hEx. 24:12. & 34:1. Deut. 10:1. ver. 7.
  23. sver. 13. See Luke 4:20.
  24. t1 Cor. 11:7. Comp. Luke 9:29–31. Acts 6:15.
  25. uSee 1 Cor. 13:8.
  26. vSee Rom. 4:15. Comp. Heb. 12:18–21.
  27. wch. 11:15. So Rom. 1:17. & 3:21.
  28. xEx. 34:29, 35 (Gk.).
  29. ych. 9:3. 1 Pet. 4:16 in the Gk.
  30. uSee 1 Cor. 13:8.
  31. zch. 7:4. Eph. 6:19. So ch. 4:13.
  32. ||Or, boldness. See Acts 4:29.
  33. sver. 13. See Luke 4:20.
  34. aRom. 10:4. Comp. Gal. 3:23–25.
  35. uSee 1 Cor. 13:8.
  36. bRom. 11:25. See Matt. 13:14.
  37. cSee ch. 2:11.
  38. dMark 6:52. So ch. 4:4.
  39. eSee Acts 15:21.
  40. fComp. ver. 6.
  41. uSee 1 Cor. 13:8.
  42. eSee Acts 15:21.
  43. hComp. Isai. 25:7.
  44. iver. 6. Comp. John 4:24. & 15:26.
  45. jGal. 5:1, 13. See John 8:32.
  46. kSee 1 Cor. 13:12.
  47. lJohn 17:24. So ch. 4:4, 6.
  48. mSee Rom. 8:29.
  49. nSee Matt. 17:2.
  50. oSee Ps. 84:7.
  51. ||Or, of the Lord the Spirit. Comp. ver. 17.

Cross references

  1. rEx. 34:29–35.
  2. rEx. 34:29–35.
  3. rEx. 34:29–35.
  4. gRom. 11:23, 26.