3Does this sound as if we were again boasting about ourselves? Could it be that, like some other people, we need letters of recommendation to you or from you?G756G3825G4921G1438G1508G5535G5613G5100G1992G4956G4314G5209G2228G4956G1537G52162You yourselves are the letter we have, written on our hearts for everyone to know and read.G5210G2075G2257G1992G1449G1722G2257G2588G1097G2532G314G5259G3956G4443It is clear that Christ himself wrote this letter and sent it by us. It is written, not with ink but with the Spirit of the living God, and not on stone tablets but on human hearts.G5319G3754G2075G1992G5547G1247G5259G2257G1449G3756G3188G235G4151G2198G2316G3756G1722G4109G3035G235G1722G4560G4109G25884We say this because we have confidence in God through Christ.G1161G5108G4006G2192G1223G5547G4314G23165There is nothing in us that allows us to claim that we are capable of doing this work. The capacity we have comes from God;G3756G3754G2070G2425G575G1438G3049G5100G5613G1537G1438G235G2257G2426G1537G23166it is he who made us capable of serving the new covenant, which consists not of a written law but of the Spirit. The written law brings death, but the Spirit gives life.G3739G2532G2427G2248G2427G1249G2537G1242G3756G1121G235G4151G1063G1121G615G1161G4151G22277The Law was carved in letters on stone tablets, and God's glory appeared when it was given. Even though the brightness on Moses' face was fading, it was so strong that the people of Israel could not keep their eyes fixed on him. If the Law, which brings death when it is in force, came with such glory,G1161G1487G1248G2288G1722G1121G1795G1722G3037G1096G1722G1391G5620G5207G2474G1410G3361G816G1519G4383G3475G1223G1391G846G4383G3588G26738how much greater is the glory that belongs to the activity of the Spirit!G4459G1248G3780G1248G4151G2071G3123G1722G13919The system which brings condemnation was glorious; how much more glorious is the activity which brings salvation!G1063G1487G1248G2633G1391G4183G3123G1248G1343G4052G1722G139110We may say that because of the far brighter glory now the glory that was so bright in the past is gone.G1063G2532G1392G3761G1392G1722G5129G3313G1752G1391G523511For if there was glory in that which lasted for a while, how much more glory is there in that which lasts forever!G1063G1487G2673G1223G1391G4183G3123G3306G1722G139112Because we have this hope, we are very bold.G3767G2192G5108G1680G5530G4183G395413We are not like Moses, who had to put a veil over his face so that the people of Israel would not see the brightness fade and disappear.G2532G3756G2509G3475G5087G2571G1909G1438G4383G4314G5207G2474G816G3361G816G1519G5056G267314Their minds, indeed, were closed; and to this very day their minds are covered with the same veil as they read the books of the old covenant. The veil is removed only when a person is joined to Christ.G235G846G3540G4456G1063G891G4594G3306G846G2571G3361G343G1909G320G3820G1242G3748G2673G1722G554715Even today, whenever they read the Law of Moses, the veil still covers their minds.G235G2193G4594G2259G3475G314G2571G2749G1909G846G258816But it can be removed, as the scripture says about Moses: "His veil was removed when he turned to the Lord."G1161G2259G302G1994G4314G2962G2571G401417Now, "the Lord" in this passage is the Spirit; and where the Spirit of the Lord is present, there is freedom.G1161G2962G2076G4151G1161G3757G4151G2962G1563G165718All of us, then, reflect the glory of the Lord with uncovered faces; and that same glory, coming from the Lord, who is the Spirit, transforms us into his likeness in an ever greater degree of glory.G1161G2249G3956G343G4383G2734G1391G2962G3339G846G1504G575G1391G1519G1391G2509G575G4151G2962
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