2 Corinthians 3
3:1Do we begin again to commend ourselves, unless we need, as some, of introductory letters to you, or introductory letters from you?
3:2You are our letter being written in our hearts, being known and being read by all men;
3:3being manifested that you are Christ's letter served by us, having been written not with ink, but by spirit of the living God; not on tablets of stones, but on fleshly tablets of the heart.
3:4And such reliance we have through the Christ towards God;
3:5not that we are fit of ourselves to consider anything as from out of ourselves, but our fitness is of God;
3:6who also made us fit servants of a new covenant, not of contract, but of spirit. For the contract kills, but the spirit restores to life.
3:7And if the service of death in contracts having been impressed in stones, happened for glory, so as for the sons of Israel to not be able to gaze into the face of Moses because of the glory of his face, the one being cleared away;
3:8how not more the service of the spirit will be in glory?
3:9For if the service of condemnation be glory, much rather abounds the service of righteousness in glory.
3:10For also not even the thing having been glorified has been glorified in this part, on account of the exceeding glory.
3:11For if the thing being cleared away was through glory, much rather the thing which remains is in glory.
3:12Having then such hope, we deal in much confidence;
3:13and not as Moses put a covering upon the face of himself, for the thing of the sons of Israel to not gaze unto the end of the thing being cleared away.
3:14But their thoughts were calloused. For as far as today the same covering remains upon the reading of the old covenant, not uncovered, which in Christ is being cleared away.
3:15But unto today, when Moses is read, a covering lies upon their heart.
3:16But when ever it should turn towards the Lord, the covering is removed.
3:17And the Lord is the spirit; but where the spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom.
3:18But we all with uncovered face are reflecting the glory of the Lord, the same image being transformed from glory unto glory, just as from the Lord of spirit.