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2 Corinthians 3

¹Doe wee begin againe to commend our selues? or need wee, as some others, Epistles of commendation to you, or letters of commendation from you?

²Ye are our Epistle written in our hearts, knowen and read of all men.

³Forasmuch as yee are manifestly declared to be the Epistle of Christ ministred by vs, written not with inke, but with the spirit of the liuing God, not in tables of stone, but in fleshy tables of the heart.

⁴And such trust haue wee through Christ to Godward:

⁵Not that wee are sufficient of our selues to thinke any thing as of our selues: but our sufficiencie is of God:

⁶Who also hath made vs able ministers of the New Testament, not of the letter, but of the spirit: for the letter killeth, but the spirit giueth life.

⁷But if the ministration of death written, and ingrauen in stones, was glorious, so that the children of Israel could not stedfastly beholde the face of Moses, for the glory of his countenance, which glorie was to be done away:

⁸How shall not the ministration of the spirit, be rather glorious?

⁹For if the ministration of condemnation bee glory, much more doth the ministration of righteousnesse exceed in glorie.

¹⁰For euen that which was made glorious, had no glorie in this respect by reason of the glorie that excelleth.

¹¹For if that which is done away, was glorious, much more that which remaineth is glorious.

¹²Seeing then that wee haue such hope, we vse great plainnesse of speech.

¹³And not as Moses, which put a vaile ouer his face, that the children of Israel could not stedfastly looke to the end of that which is abolished;

¹⁴But their mindes were blinded: for vntill this day remaineth the same vaile vntaken away, in the reading of the old testament: which vaile is done away in Christ.

¹⁵But euen vnto this day, when Moses is read, the vaile is vpon their heart.

¹⁶Neuerthelesse, when it shall turne to the Lord, the vaile shall be taken away.

¹⁷Now the Lord is that spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is libertie.

¹⁸But we all, with open face beholding as in a glasse the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image, from glorie to glorie, euen as by the spirit of the Lord.