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| The Book of 2nd Corinthians 3 | ||||||||||||||||
| The Weymouth New Testament Online Bible (WEY) | ||||||||||||||||
| 2nd Corinthians 3:1 | Do you say that this is self-recommendation once more? Or do we need, as some do, letters of recommendation to you or from you? | |||||||||||||||
| 2nd Corinthians 3:2 | Our letter of recommendation is yourselves a letter written on our hearts and everywhere known and read. | |||||||||||||||
| 2nd Corinthians 3:3 | For all can see that you are a letter of Christ entrusted to our care, and written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the ever-living God and not on tablets of stone, but on human hearts as tablets. | |||||||||||||||
| 2nd Corinthians 3:4 | Such is the confidence which we have through Christ in the presence of God; | |||||||||||||||
| 2nd Corinthians 3:5 | not that of ourselves we are competent to decide anything by our own reasonings, but our competency comes from God. | |||||||||||||||
| 2nd Corinthians 3:6 | It is He also who has made us competent to serve Him in connexion with a new Covenant, which is not a written code but a Spirit; for the written code inflicts death, but the Spirit gives Life. | |||||||||||||||
| 2nd Corinthians 3:7 | If, however, the service that proclaims death its code being engraved in writing upon stones came with glory, so that the children of Israel could not look steadily on the face of Moses because of the brightness of his face a vanishing brightness; | |||||||||||||||
| 2nd Corinthians 3:8 | will not the service of the Spirit be far more glorious? | |||||||||||||||
| 2nd Corinthians 3:9 | For if the service which pronounces doom had glory, far more glorious still is the service which tells of righteousness. | |||||||||||||||
| 2nd Corinthians 3:10 | For, in fact, that which was once resplendent in glory has no glory at all in this respect, that it pales before the glory which surpasses it. | |||||||||||||||
| 2nd Corinthians 3:11 | For if that which was to be abolished came with glory, much more is that which is permanent arrayed in glory. | |||||||||||||||
| 2nd Corinthians 3:12 | Therefore, cherishing a hope like this, we speak without reserve, and we do not imitate Moses, | |||||||||||||||
| 2nd Corinthians 3:13 | who used to throw a veil over his face to hide from the gaze of the children of Israel the passing away of what was but transitory. | |||||||||||||||
| 2nd Corinthians 3:14 | Nay, their minds were made dull; for to this very day during the reading of the book of the ancient Covenant, the same veil remains unlifted, because it is only in Christ that it is to be abolished. | |||||||||||||||
| 2nd Corinthians 3:15 | Yes, to this day, whenever Moses is read, a veil lies upon their hearts. | |||||||||||||||
| 2nd Corinthians 3:16 | But whenever the heart of the nation shall have returned to the Lord, the veil will be withdrawn. | |||||||||||||||
| 2nd Corinthians 3:17 | Now by "the Lord" is meant the Spirit; and where the Spirit of the Lord is, freedom is enjoyed. | |||||||||||||||
| 2nd Corinthians 3:18 | And all of us, with unveiled faces, reflecting like bright mirrors the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same likeness, from one degree of radiant holiness to another, even as derived from the Lord the Spirit. | |||||||||||||||
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