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2 Corinthians 3

Ministers of a New Covenant

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Are we beginning to  acommend ourselves again? Or do we need, as some,  bletters of commendation to you or from you?

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 aYou are our letter, written in our hearts, known and read by all men;

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being manifested that you are a letter of Christ,  1 acared for by us, written not with ink but with the Spirit of  bthe living God, not on  ctablets of stone but on  dtablets of  2 ehuman hearts.

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Such  aconfidence we have through Christ toward God.

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Not that we are adequate in ourselves to consider anything as coming from ourselves, but  aour adequacy is from God,

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who also made us adequate as  aservants of a  bnew covenant, not of  cthe letter but of the Spirit; for the letter kills, but  dthe Spirit gives life.

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But if the  aministry of death,  bin letters engraved on stones, came  1with glory,  cso that the sons of Israel could not look intently at the face of Moses because of the glory of his face, fading as it was,

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how will the ministry of the Spirit fail to be even more with glory?

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For if  athe ministry of condemnation has glory, much more does the  bministry of righteousness abound in glory.

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For indeed what had glory, in this case has no glory because of the glory that surpasses it.

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For if that which fades away was  1with glory, much more that which remains is in glory.

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 aTherefore having such a hope,  bwe use great boldness in our speech,

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and are not like Moses,  awho used to put a veil over his face so that the sons of Israel would not look intently at the end of what was fading away.

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But their minds were  ahardened; for until this very day at the  breading of  cthe old covenant the same veil  1remains unlifted, because it is removed in Christ.

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But to this day whenever Moses is read, a veil lies over their heart;

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 abut whenever a person turns to the Lord, the veil is taken away.

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Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where  athe Spirit of the Lord is,  bthere is liberty.

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But we all, with unveiled face,  abeholding as in a mirror the  bglory of the Lord, are being  ctransformed into the same image from glory to glory, just as from  dthe Lord, the Spirit.



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