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* ARE we beginning again to recommend ourselves ? Do we need , as some do , letters of recommendation to you or from you ? * You are our letter , written in our hearts , known and read by all men , * evidently a letter of Christ delivered by us , written not with ink , but with the Spirit of the living God , not on stone tablets , but on tablets that are hearts of flesh . * We have such confidence through Christ toward God . * Not that of ourselves we are fit to reason out anything as from ourselves , but our fitness is from God , * who has fitted us to be servants of a new covenant , not of the letter , but of the spirit . For the letter kills , but the spirit gives life . * If the service that brought death , engraved in letters on stones , came in glory , so that the children of Israel could not look steadily at the face of Moses because of the glory of his face \'97 that fading glory \'97 * how much more glorious will not the service of the Spirit be ? * For if the service that brought condemnation was glory , much more will the service that brings righteousness surpass in glory . * For what was made so glorious is in a way no longer glorious compared with the glory that surpasses it . * For if what was to be ended came in glory , much more glorious must be that which is enduring . * With such a hope then we speak with great frankness , * and are not like Moses , who used to put a veil over his face so that the children of Israel might not see when the vanishing glory ended ; * but their thinking was dulled . For to this day the same veil remains unlifted when the old covenant is read ; because it is done away only in Christ . * To this day when Moses is read the veil lies on their hearts ; * "but when they turn to the Lord the veil is taken away ." * The Lord is the Spirit , and where the Spirit of the Lord is there is liberty . * And we all , with unveiled face , reflecting the glory of the Lord , are changed into the same likeness from glory to glory as by the Spirit of the Lord .

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