2Corinthians:3

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* Do you think we are starting again to tell how good we are ? Do we need letters to tell about us , as some teachers do ? We do not need letters to you or from you to praise us . * You yourselves are our letter . This letter has been written in our hearts . All people can read it and understand it . * All can see that you are a letter from Christ written by us . It is not written in ink , but it is written in the Spirit of the living God . It is not written on pieces of rock , but on the hearts of people . * We can say this because we trust in God . And we trust in God because of Christ . * We are not good enough to think we can do anything ourselves . But God makes us able to do it . * God has made a new start with people . He has given us a new way back to God . It is not a written law . The Spirit gives it to us . The written law brings death , but the Spirit gives life . * The old law that brought death was written on pieces of rock . There was a very bright light when God gave it to the people . The people of Israel could not look at Moses because his face was so bright . And even as they saw it , the light on his face was going away . * Now bringing the law was bright and wonderful . Will not bringing the Spirit be far more bright and wonderful ? * Bringing the law was a wonderful thing even though it brought death . So bringing the good news that people can be put right with God is much more wonderful . * The law was so bright and wonderful at first but has no light now . There is something else that is so much more bright and wonderful . * The one which does not stay alive for ever came first in a great light . Does not the one which does stay alive have a much brighter light ? * Because we believe this , we do not fear . * We are not like Moses . He put a cloth over his face so that the people of Israel would not see that the light from God was dying . * But their minds were made dull . Even today , when the old law of God is read , it is as if a cloth still covers it . It is Christ who takes the cloth away . * Yes , even today , when the books of Moses are read , it is as if a cloth covers their hearts and minds . * But when a man turns to the Lord , the cloth is taken away . * Now the Lord is the Spirit . Where the Spirit of the Lord is , people are set free . * All of us have no cloth over our faces . People can see that we have some of the bright and wonderful light that the Lord has . And we are becoming brighter and brighter , more and more like him . It is the Lord , the Spirit , who does this .

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