2Corinthians 3:13 - Prayer Tents

Christ’s Epistle

3Do we begin again to commend ourselves? Or do we need, as some others, epistles of commendation to you or letters of commendation from you?G756G3825G4921G1438G1508G5535G5613G5100G1992G4956G4314G5209G2228G4956G1537G5216

2You are our epistle written in our hearts, known and read by all men;G5210G2075G2257G1992G1449G1722G2257G2588G1097G2532G314G5259G3956G444

3clearly you are an epistle of Christ, ministered by us, written not with ink but by the Spirit of the living God, not on tablets of stone but on tablets of flesh, that is, of the heart.G5319G3754G2075G1992G5547G1247G5259G2257G1449G3756G3188G235G4151G2198G2316G3756G1722G4109G3035G235G1722G4560G4109G2588

The Spirit, Not the Letter

4And we have such trust through Christ toward God.G1161G5108G4006G2192G1223G5547G4314G2316

5Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think of anything as being from ourselves, but our sufficiency is from God,G3756G3754G2070G2425G575G1438G3049G5100G5613G1537G1438G235G2257G2426G1537G2316

6who also made us sufficient as ministers of the new covenant, not of the letter but of the Spirit; for the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.G3739G2532G2427G2248G2427G1249G2537G1242G3756G1121G235G4151G1063G1121G615G1161G4151G2227

Glory of the New Covenant

7But if the ministry of death, written and engraved on stones, was glorious, so that the children of Israel could not look steadily at the face of Moses because of the glory of his countenance, which glory was passing away,G1161G1487G1248G2288G1722G1121G1795G1722G3037G1096G1722G1391G5620G5207G2474G1410G3361G816G1519G4383G3475G1223G1391G846G4383G3588G2673

8how will the ministry of the Spirit not be more glorious?G4459G1248G3780G1248G4151G2071G3123G1722G1391

9For if the ministry of condemnation had glory, the ministry of righteousness exceeds much more in glory.G1063G1487G1248G2633G1391G4183G3123G1248G1343G4052G1722G1391

10For even what was made glorious had no glory in this respect, because of the glory that excels.G1063G2532G1392G3761G1392G1722G5129G3313G1752G1391G5235

11For if what is passing away was glorious, what remains is much more glorious.G1063G1487G2673G1223G1391G4183G3123G3306G1722G1391

12Therefore, since we have such hope, we use great boldness of speech—G3767G2192G5108G1680G5530G4183G3954

13unlike Moses, who put a veil over his face so that the children of Israel could not look steadily at the end of what was passing away.G2532G3756G2509G3475G5087G2571G1909G1438G4383G4314G5207G2474G816G3361G816G1519G5056G2673

14But their minds were blinded. For until this day the same veil remains unlifted in the reading of the Old Testament, because the veil is taken away in Christ.G235G846G3540G4456G1063G891G4594G3306G846G2571G3361G343G1909G320G3820G1242G3748G2673G1722G5547

15But even to this day, when Moses is read, a veil lies on their heart.G235G2193G4594G2259G3475G314G2571G2749G1909G846G2588

16Nevertheless when one turns to the Lord, the veil is taken away.G1161G2259G302G1994G4314G2962G2571G4014

17Now the Lord is the Spirit; and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.G1161G2962G2076G4151G1161G3757G4151G2962G1563G1657

18But we all, with unveiled face, beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory, just as by the Spirit of the Lord.G1161G2249G3956G343G4383G2734G1391G2962G3339G846G1504G575G1391G1519G1391G2509G575G4151G2962