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title: 2 Corinthians 3
slug: kjv-nt/2-corinthians-3
createdAt: 2024-09-11T03:39:42.882Z
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**1 **Do we begin again to commend ourselves? or need we, as some *others*, epistles of commendation to you, or *letters* of commendation from you? **2 **Ye are our epistle written in our hearts, known and read of all men: **3 ***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.

**4 **And such trust have we through Christ to God-ward: **5 **Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think any thing as of ourselves; but our sufficiency *is* of God; **6 **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.

**7 **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: **8 **How shall not the ministration of the spirit be rather glorious? **9 **For if the ministration of condemnation *be* glory, much more doth the ministration of righteousness exceed in glory. **10 **For even that which was made glorious had no glory in this respect, by reason of the glory that excelleth. **11 **For if that which is done away *was* glorious, much more that which remaineth *is* glorious.

**12 **Seeing then that we have such hope, we use great plainness of speech: **13 **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: **14 **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. **15 **But even unto this day, when Moses is read, the vail is upon their heart. **16 **Nevertheless when it shall turn to the Lord, the vail shall be taken away. **17 **Now the Lord is that Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord *is*, there *is* liberty. **18 **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.