2Corinthians:3

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* Do we begin (5731 ) again to commend (5721 ) ourselves ? or need we (5719 ), as some others , epistles of commendation to you , or letters of commendation from you ? * Ye are (5748 ) our epistle written (5772 ) in our hearts , known (5746 ) and read (5746 ) of all me : * Forasmuch as ye are manifestly declared (5746 ) to be (5748 ) the epistle of Christ ministered (5685 ) by us , written (5772 ) not with ink , but with the Spirit of the living (5723 ) God ; not in tables of stone , but in fleshy tables of the heart . * And such trust have we (5719 ) through Christ to God-ward : * Not that we are (5748 ) sufficient of ourselves to think (5664 ) any thing as of ourselves ; but our sufficiency is of God ; * Who also hath made us able (5656 ) ministers of the new testament ; not of the letter , but of the spirit : for the letter killeth (5719 ), but the spirit giveth life (5719 ). * But if the ministration of death , written and engraven (5772 ) in stones , was (5675 ) glorious , so that the children of Israel could (5738 ) not stedfastly behold (5658 ) the face of Moses for the glory of his countenance ; which glory was to be done away (5746 ): * How shall not the ministration of the spirit be (5704 ) rather glorious ? * For if the ministration of condemnation be glory , much more doth the ministration of righteousness exceed (5719 ) in glory . * For even that which was made glorious (5769 ) had no glory (5772 ) in this respect , by reason of the glory that excelleth (5723 ). * For if that which is done away (5746 ) was glorious , much more that which remaineth (5723 ) is glorious . * Seeing then that we have (5723 ) such hope , we use (5736 ) great plainness of speech : * And not as Moses , which put (5707 ) a vail over his face , that the children of Israel could not stedfastly look (5658 ) to the end of that which is abolished (5746 ): * But their minds were blinded (5681 ): for until this day remaineth (5719 ) the same vail untaken away (5746 ) in the reading of the old testament ; which vail is done away (5743 ) in Christ . * But even unto this day , when Moses is read (5743 ), the vail is upon (5736 ) their heart . * Nevertheless when it shall turn (5661 ) to the Lord , the vail shall be taken away (5743 ). * Now the Lord is (5748 ) that Spirit : and where the Spirit of the Lord is , there is liberty . * But we all , with open (5772 ) face beholding as in a glass (5734 ) the glory of the Lord , are changed (5743 ) into the same image from glory to glory , even as by the Spirit of the Lord .

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