2 Corinthians 3:6–18

⁶who also made us adequate as ^aservants 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 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, fading as it was,

⁸how will the ministry of the Spirit fail to be even more with glory?

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

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

¹¹For if that which fades away was ¹with glory, much more that which remains is in glory.

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

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 end of what was fading away.

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 removed in Christ.

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

^16abut whenever a person turns to the Lord, the veil is taken away.

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

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.