2Corinthians:3

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* Are we beginning again to commend ourselves ? Or do we need , as do some , letters of commendation to you (note :){+}(:note ) or from you {+}? * Our letter is you (note :){+}(:note ), written in our hearts , known and read by all men ; * being made manifest that you (note :){+}(:note ) are a letter of Christ , served by us , not written with ink , but with the Spirit of the living God ; not in tables of stone , but in tables [that are ] hearts of flesh . * And such confidence we have through Christ toward God : * not that we are sufficient of ourselves , to account anything as from ourselves ; but our sufficiency is from God ; * who also made us sufficient as servants of a new covenant ; not of the letter , but of the spirit : for the letter kills , but the spirit gives life . * But if the service of death , written , [and ] engraved on stones , came with glory , so that the sons of Israel could not look steadfastly on the face of Moses for the glory of his face ; which [glory ] was passing away : * how will not rather the service of the spirit be with glory ? * For if in the service of condemnation [there is ] glory , much rather does the service of righteousness exceed in glory . * For truly that which has been made glorious has not been made glorious in this respect , by reason of the glory that surpasses . * For if that which passes away [was ] with glory , much more that which stays [is ] in glory . * Having therefore such a hope , we use great boldness of speech , * and [are ] not as Moses , [who ] put a veil on his face , that the sons of Israel should not look steadfastly on the end of that which was passing away : * but their minds were hardened . For until this very day at the reading of the old covenant the same veil stays , not being unveiled , because it is in Christ that it is removed . * But to this day , whenever Moses is read , a veil lies on their heart . * But upon turning to the Lord , the veil is taken away . * Now the Lord is the Spirit : and where the Spirit of the Lord is , [there ] is liberty . * But all of us , with unveiled face looking as in a mirror at the glory of the Lord , are transformed into the same image from glory to glory , even as from the Lord the Spirit .

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