2Corinthians:3

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* Do we begin again to commend ourselves ? or do we need , as some [others ], epistles of commendation to you or [letters ] of commendation from you ? * Ye are our epistle written in our hearts , known and read of all men : * [Forasmuch as ye are ] manifestly declared to be the epistle of Christ ministered by us , written not with ink , but with the Spirit of the living God ; not in tables of stone , but in fleshy tables of the heart . * And such trust we have through the Christ towards God : * Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think anything as of ourselves , but our sufficiency [is ] of God , * who also has made us able ministers of the new testament , not of the letter , but of the Spirit ; for the letter kills , but the Spirit gives life . * But if the ministry of death in the letter engraved in stones was glorious , so that the sons of Israel could not steadfastly behold the face of Moses for the glory of his countenance which [glory ] was to fade away , * How shall not the ministry of the Spirit be for greater glory ? * For if the ministry of condemnation [had ] glory , much more shall the ministry of righteousness abound in glory . * For even that which was [so ] glorious had no glory in this respect , in comparison with the glory that excels . * For if that which fades away [was ] glorious , much more shall that which remains [be ] glorious . * Seeing then that we have such hope , we speak with great confidence , * And not as Moses , [who ] put a veil over his face , that the sons of Israel could not steadfastly look to the end of that [glory ] which was to fade away : * (And thus their senses became hardened , for until this day remains the same veil not uncovered in the reading of the old testament , which [veil ] is taken away in Christ . * But even unto this day when Moses is read , the veil is upon their heart . * Nevertheless when they convert to the Lord , the veil shall be taken away .) * For the Lord is the Spirit , and where that Spirit of the Lord [is ], there [is ] liberty . * Therefore we all , beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord with uncovered face , are transformed from glory to glory into the same likeness , [even ] as by the Spirit of the Lord .:

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