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Or do we need (as some do) epistles of commendation to you, or from you? <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_corinthians/3-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>You are our epistle, written in our hearts, which is known and read by all men: <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_corinthians/3-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>Being manifested, that you are the epistle of Christ, ministered by us, and written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; not in tables of stone, but in the fleshly tables of the heart. </p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_corinthians/3-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>And such confidence we have, through Christ, towards God. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_corinthians/3-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>Not that we are sufficient to think any thing of ourselves, as of ourselves: but our sufficiency is from God. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_corinthians/3-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>Who also hath made us fit ministers of the new testament, not in the letter, but in the spirit. For the letter killeth, but the spirit quickeneth. </p> <a name="7" id="7"></a><p class="hdg">The Glory of the New Covenant<br /><p class="cross">(<a href="../exodus/34.htm#29">Exodus 34:29-35</a>)</p></p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_corinthians/3-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>Now if the ministration of death, engraven with letters upon stones, was glorious; so that the children of Israel could not steadfastly behold the face of Moses, for the glory of his countenance, which is made void: <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_corinthians/3-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>How shall not the ministration of the spirit be rather in glory? <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_corinthians/3-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>For if the ministration of condemnation be glory, much more the ministration of justice aboundeth in glory. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_corinthians/3-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>For even that which was glorious in this part was not glorified, by reason of the glory that excelleth. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_corinthians/3-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>For if that which is done away was glorious, much more that which remaineth is in glory. </p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_corinthians/3-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>Having therefore such hope, we use much confidence: <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_corinthians/3-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>And not as Moses put a veil upon his face, that the children of Israel might not steadfastly look on the face of that which is made void. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_corinthians/3-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>But their senses were made dull. For, until this present day, the selfsame veil, in the reading of the old testament, remaineth not taken away (because in Christ it is made void). <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_corinthians/3-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>But even until this day, when Moses is read, the veil is upon their heart. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_corinthians/3-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>But when they shall be converted to the Lord, the veil shall be taken away. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_corinthians/3-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>Now the Lord is a Spirit. 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