2 Corinthians 3

CHAPTER 3

Ministers of a New Covenant

¹Are we beginning to ^acommend ourselves again? Or do we need, as some, ^bletters of commendation to you or from you?

^2aYou are our letter, having been written in our hearts, known and read by all men,

³being manifested that you are a letter of Christ, ^aministered to by us, having been written not with ink but with the Spirit of ^bthe living God, not on ^ctablets of stone but on ^dtablets of hearts of ^eflesh.

⁴And such ^aconfidence we have through Christ toward God.

⁵Not that we are sufficient in ourselves to consider anything as coming from ourselves, but ^aour sufficiency is from God,

⁶who also made us sufficient as ^aministers of a ^bnew covenant, not of ^cthe letter but of the Spirit; for the letter kills, but ^dthe Spirit gives life.

⁷But if the ^aministry of death, ^bin letters having been engraved on stones, came ¹with glory, ^cso that the sons of Israel could not look intently at the face of Moses because of the glory of his face, which was being brought to an end,

⁸how will the ministry of the Spirit not be even more in glory?

⁹For if ^athe ministry of condemnation has glory, much more does the ^bministry of righteousness abound in glory.

¹⁰For indeed what had been glorious, in this case has no glory because of the glory that surpasses it.

¹¹For if that which was being brought to an end was ¹with glory, much more that which remains is in glory.

^12aTherefore having such a hope, ^bwe use great boldness,

¹³and are not like Moses, ^awho used to put a veil over his face so that the sons of Israel would not look intently at the consequence of what was being brought to an end.

¹⁴But their minds were ^ahardened; for until this very day at the ^breading of ^cthe old covenant the same veil ¹remains unlifted, because it is brought to an end in Christ.

¹⁵But to this day whenever Moses is read, a veil lies over their heart,

¹⁶but ^awhenever a person turns to the ¹Lord, the veil is taken away.

¹⁷Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where ^athe Spirit of the Lord is, ^bthere is freedom.

¹⁸But we all, with unveiled face, ^abeholding as in a mirror the ^bglory of the Lord, are being ^ctransformed into the same image from glory to glory, just as from ^dthe Lord, the Spirit.