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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.
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