Sept. 23
2 Corinthians 3
2Co 3:1 Are we
beginning again to commend ourselves? Or do we need, as do some,
letters of commendation to you or from you?
2Co 3:2 You are our
letter, written in our hearts, known and read by all men;
2Co 3:3 being revealed
that you are a letter of Christ, served by us, written not with ink,
but with the Spirit of the living God; not in tablets of stone, but
in tablets that are hearts of flesh.
2Co 3:4 Such confidence
we have through Christ toward God;
2Co 3:5 not that we are
sufficient of ourselves, to account anything as from ourselves; but
our sufficiency is from God;
2Co 3:6 who also made
us sufficient as servants of a new covenant; not of the letter, but
of the Spirit. For the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.
2Co 3:7 But if the
service of death, written engraved on stones, came with glory, so
that the children of Israel could not look steadfastly on the face of
Moses for the glory of his face; which was passing away:
2Co 3:8 won't service
of the Spirit be with much more glory?
2Co 3:9 For if the
service of condemnation has glory, the service of righteousness
exceeds much more in glory.
2Co 3:10 For most
certainly that which has been made glorious has not been made
glorious in this respect, by reason of the glory that surpasses.
2Co 3:11 For if that
which passes away was with glory, much more that which remains is in
glory.
2Co 3:12 Having
therefore such a hope, we use great boldness of speech,
2Co 3:13 and not as
Moses, who put a veil on his face, that the children of Israel
wouldn't look steadfastly on the end of that which was passing away.
2Co 3:14 But their
minds were hardened, for until this very day at the reading of the
old covenant the same veil remains, because in Christ it passes away.
2Co 3:15 But to this
day, when Moses is read, a veil lies on their heart.
2Co 3:16 But whenever
one turns to the Lord, the veil is taken away.
2Co 3:17 Now the Lord
is the Spirit and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.
2Co 3:18 But we all,
with unveiled face beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord,
are transformed into the same image from glory to glory, even as from
the Lord, the Spirit.