3Are we beginning to commend ourselves again? Or do we need, as some do, letters of recommendation to you, or from you?G756G3825G4921G1438G1508G5535G5613G5100G1992G4956G4314G5209G2228G4956G1537G52162You yourselves are our letter of recommendation, written on our hearts, to be known and read by all.G5210G2075G2257G1992G1449G1722G2257G2588G1097G2532G314G5259G3956G4443And 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.G5319G3754G2075G1992G5547G1247G5259G2257G1449G3756G3188G235G4151G2198G2316G3756G1722G4109G3035G235G1722G4560G4109G25884Such is the confidence that we have through Christ toward God.G1161G5108G4006G2192G1223G5547G4314G23165Not that we are sufficient in ourselves to claim anything as coming from us, but our sufficiency is from God,G3756G3754G2070G2425G575G1438G3049G5100G5613G1537G1438G235G2257G2426G1537G23166who has made us competent to be ministers of a new covenant, not of the letter but of the Spirit. For the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.G3739G2532G2427G2248G2427G1249G2537G1242G3756G1121G235G4151G1063G1121G615G1161G4151G22277Now if the ministry of death, carved in letters on stone, came with such glory that the Israelites could not gaze at Moses' face because of its glory, which was being brought to an end,G1161G1487G1248G2288G1722G1121G1795G1722G3037G1096G1722G1391G5620G5207G2474G1410G3361G816G1519G4383G3475G1223G1391G846G4383G3588G26738will not the ministry of the Spirit have even more glory?G4459G1248G3780G1248G4151G2071G3123G1722G13919For if there was glory in the ministry of condemnation, the ministry of righteousness must far exceed it in glory.G1063G1487G1248G2633G1391G4183G3123G1248G1343G4052G1722G139110Indeed, in this case, what once had glory has come to have no glory at all, because of the glory that surpasses it.G1063G2532G1392G3761G1392G1722G5129G3313G1752G1391G523511For if what was being brought to an end came with glory, much more will what is permanent have glory.G1063G1487G2673G1223G1391G4183G3123G3306G1722G139112Since we have such a hope, we are very bold,G3767G2192G5108G1680G5530G4183G395413not like Moses, who would put a veil over his face so that the Israelites might not gaze at the outcome of what was being brought to an end.G2532G3756G2509G3475G5087G2571G1909G1438G4383G4314G5207G2474G816G3361G816G1519G5056G267314But their minds were hardened. For to this day, when they read the old covenant, that same veil remains unlifted, because only through Christ is it taken away.G235G846G3540G4456G1063G891G4594G3306G846G2571G3361G343G1909G320G3820G1242G3748G2673G1722G554715Yes, to this day whenever Moses is read a veil lies over their hearts.G235G2193G4594G2259G3475G314G2571G2749G1909G846G258816But when one turns to the Lord, the veil is removed.G1161G2259G302G1994G4314G2962G2571G401417Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom.G1161G2962G2076G4151G1161G3757G4151G2962G1563G165718And we all, with unveiled face, beholding the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from one degree of glory to another. For this comes from the Lord who is the Spirit.G1161G2249G3956G343G4383G2734G1391G2962G3339G846G1504G575G1391G1519G1391G2509G575G4151G2962
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