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          DASV: 2 Corinthians 3    

1 Are we beginning to commend ourselves again? Or do we really
need, as do some, letters of recommendation to you or from you?
2 You yourselves are our letter, written on our hearts, known
and read by all.
3 You show that you are a letter from Christ, delivered by us,
written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God;
not on tablets of stone, but on tablets of human hearts.
4 And we have such confidence through Christ before God.
5 Not that we are competent in ourselves to claim anything as
having come from us; but our competence is from God.
6 He has made us competent as ministers of a new covenant; not
of the letter, but of the Spirit. For the letter kills, but the
Spirit gives life.

7 But if the ministry of death, etched in letters on stone
tablets, came with glory, so that the Israelites could not
look steadfastly on the face of Moses because of the glory
of his face, a glory which faded away;
8 how much more glorious will the ministry of the Spirit be?
9 For if the ministry of condemnation had glory, how much
more does the ministry of righteousness excel in glory.
10 For indeed what had been glorious has no glory, when
compared to the glory that surpasses it.
11 For if that which was fading away came with glory, how
much more has the permanent come with glory.
12 Therefore having such a hope, we behave with great
boldness.
13 We are not like Moses, who put a veil over his face,
so that the Israelites would not stare at the end of that
which was fading away.
14 But their minds were hardened. For until this very day
when the old covenant is read the same veil remains,
because only through Christ is it taken away.
15 But to this day, whenever Moses is read, a veil lies
over their hearts.
16 But whenever someone turns to the Lord, the veil is
taken away.
17 Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of
the Lord is, there is freedom.
18 But we all, with unveiled faces reflecting as in a
mirror the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into
the same image from one degree of glory to another,
which comes from the Lord, who is Spirit.

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