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* Do we begin again to commend ourselves ? or need we , 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 have we through Christ to God-ward : * Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think any thing as of ourselves ; but our sufficiency is of God ; * Who also hath made us able ministers of the new testament ; not of the letter , but of the spirit : for the letter killeth , but the spirit giveth life . * But if the ministration of death , written and engraven in stones , was glorious , so that the children of Israel could not stedfastly behold the face of Moses for the glory of his countenance ; which glory was to be done away : * How shall not the ministration of the spirit be rather glorious ? * For if the ministration of condemnation be glory , much more doth the ministration of righteousness exceed in glory . * For even that which was made glorious had no glory in this respect , by reason of the glory that excelleth . * For if that which is done away was glorious , much more that which remaineth is glorious . * Seeing then that we have such hope , we use great plainness of speech : * And not as Moses , which put a vail over his face , that the children of Israel could not stedfastly look to the end of that which is abolished : * But their minds were blinded : for until this day remaineth the same vail untaken away in the reading of the old testament ; which vail is done away in Christ . * But even unto this day , when Moses is read , the vail is upon their heart . * Nevertheless when it shall turn to the Lord , the vail shall be taken away . * Now the Lord is that Spirit : and where the Spirit of the Lord is , there is liberty . * But we all , with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord , are changed into the same image from glory to glory , even as by the Spirit of the Lord .

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