vw - 2Corinthians:3-4

vw@2Corinthians:3:1 @ Do we begin again to commend ourselves? Or do we need, as some others, letters of commendation to you or commendation from you?

vw@2Corinthians:3:2 @ You are our letter written in our hearts, known and read by all men.

vw@2Corinthians:3:3 @ Clearly you are a letter of Christ, ministered by us, written not with ink but by the Spirit of the living God, not on tablets of stone but in tablets of flesh, that is, of the heart.

vw@2Corinthians:3:4 @ And we have such confidence through Christ toward God.

vw@2Corinthians:3:5 @ Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think of anything as being out of ourselves, but our sufficiency is from God,

vw@2Corinthians:3:6 @ who also made us able ministers of the new covenant, not of the letter but of the Spirit; for the letter kills, but the Spirit makes alive.

vw@2Corinthians:3:7 @ But if the ministry of death, written and engraved in stone, was glorious, so that the children of Israel could not look steadily at the face of Moses because of the glory of his countenance, which was passing away,

vw@2Corinthians:3:8 @ how much will not the ministry of the Spirit be more glorious.

vw@2Corinthians:3:9 @ For if the ministry of condemnation had glory, even more the ministry of righteousness abounds in glory.

vw@2Corinthians:3:10 @ For even what was made glorious had no glory in this respect, because of the surpassing glory.

vw@2Corinthians:3:11 @ For if what is passing away was glorious, much more what remains is glorious.

vw@2Corinthians:3:12 @ Therefore, since we have such hope, we use much boldness;

vw@2Corinthians:3:13 @ not like Moses, who put a veil over his face so that the children of Israel could not look steadily at the end of what was passing away.

vw@2Corinthians:3:14 @ But their minds were blinded. For until this day the same veil remains unlifted in the reading of the Old Covenant, which is being done away in Christ.

vw@2Corinthians:3:15 @ But even to this day, when Moses is read, a veil lies on their heart.

vw@2Corinthians:3:16 @ Nevertheless when one turns to the Lord, the veil is taken away.

vw@2Corinthians:3:17 @ Now the Lord is the Spirit; and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.

vw@2Corinthians:3:18 @ But we all, with unveiled face, beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory, just as by the Spirit of the Lord.

vw@2Corinthians:4:1 @ Therefore, since we have this ministry, as we have received mercy, we do not faint.

vw@2Corinthians:4:2 @ But we have renounced the hidden things of shame, not walking in craftiness nor handling the Word of God deceitfully, but by manifestation of the truth commending ourselves to every mans conscience before God.

vw@2Corinthians:4:3 @ But also if our gospel is veiled, it is veiled to those who are perishing,

vw@2Corinthians:4:4 @ whose minds the god of this age has blinded, who do not believe, so that the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, should not shine on them.

vw@2Corinthians:4:5 @ For we do not preach ourselves, but Christ Jesus the Lord, and ourselves your bondservants for Jesus sake.

vw@2Corinthians:4:6 @ For it is God who commanded light to shine out of darkness, who has shone in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.

vw@2Corinthians:4:7 @ But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellence of the power may be of God and not from us.

vw@2Corinthians:4:8 @ We are hard pressed on every side, yet not crushed; we are perplexed, but not in despair;

vw@2Corinthians:4:9 @ persecuted, but not forsaken; cast down, but not destroyed;

vw@2Corinthians:4:10 @ always carrying about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus, that the life of Jesus also may be manifested in our body.

vw@2Corinthians:4:11 @ For we who live are always delivered to death because of Jesus, that the life of Jesus also may be manifested in our mortal flesh.

vw@2Corinthians:4:12 @ So then death is working in us, but life in you.

vw@2Corinthians:4:13 @ And since we have the same spirit of faith, according to what is written, I believe and therefore I speak, we also believe and therefore speak,

vw@2Corinthians:4:14 @ knowing that He who raised up the Lord Jesus will also raise us up through Jesus, and will present us with you.

vw@2Corinthians:4:15 @ For all things are for you, that the grace may excel through the greater numbers, and cause thanksgiving to abound to the glory of God.

vw@2Corinthians:4:16 @ Therefore we do not faint. Even though our outward man is perishing, yet the inward man is being renewed day by day.

vw@2Corinthians:4:17 @ For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, is achieving for us a surpassing and eternal weight of glory,

vw@2Corinthians:4:18 @ while we do not contemplate the things which are seen, but the things which are not seen. For the things which are seen are temporary, but the things which are not seen are eternal.

vw@2Corinthians:5:1 @ For we know that if our earthly house, this tent, is torn down, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal in Heaven.