3Are we beginning to commend ourselves again? Surely we do not need, as some do, letters of recommendation to you or from you, do we?G756G3825G4921G1438G1508G5535G5613G5100G1992G4956G4314G5209G2228G4956G1537G52162You yourselves are our letter, written on our hearts, to be known and read by all;G5210G2075G2257G1992G1449G1722G2257G2588G1097G2532G314G5259G3956G4443and you show that you are a letter of Christ, prepared 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 competent of ourselves to claim anything as coming from us; our competence is from God,G3756G3754G2070G2425G575G1438G3049G5100G5613G1537G1438G235G2257G2426G1537G23166who has made us competent to be ministers of a new covenant, not of letter but of spirit; for the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.G3739G2532G2427G2248G2427G1249G2537G1242G3756G1121G235G4151G1063G1121G615G1161G4151G22277Now if the ministry of death, chiseled in letters on stone tablets, came in glory so that the people of Israel could not gaze at Moses' face because of the glory of his face, a glory now set aside,G1161G1487G1248G2288G1722G1121G1795G1722G3037G1096G1722G1391G5620G5207G2474G1410G3361G816G1519G4383G3475G1223G1391G846G4383G3588G26738how much more will the ministry of the Spirit come in glory?G4459G1248G3780G1248G4151G2071G3123G1722G13919For if there was glory in the ministry of condemnation, much more does the ministry of justification abound in glory!G1063G1487G1248G2633G1391G4183G3123G1248G1343G4052G1722G139110Indeed, what once had glory has lost its glory because of the greater glory;G1063G2532G1392G3761G1392G1722G5129G3313G1752G1391G523511for if what was set aside came through glory, much more has the permanent come in glory!G1063G1487G2673G1223G1391G4183G3123G3306G1722G139112Since, then, we have such a hope, we act with great boldness,G3767G2192G5108G1680G5530G4183G395413not like Moses, who put a veil over his face to keep the people of Israel from gazing at the end of the glory that was being set aside.G2532G3756G2509G3475G5087G2571G1909G1438G4383G4314G5207G2474G816G3361G816G1519G5056G267314But their minds were hardened. Indeed, to this very day, when they hear the reading of the old covenant, that same veil is still there, since only in Christ is it set aside.G235G846G3540G4456G1063G891G4594G3306G846G2571G3361G343G1909G320G3820G1242G3748G2673G1722G554715Indeed, to this very day whenever Moses is read, a veil lies over their minds;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 all of us, with unveiled faces, seeing the glory of the Lord as though reflected in a mirror, are being transformed into the same image from one degree of glory to another; for this comes from the Lord, the Spirit.G1161G2249G3956G343G4383G2734G1391G2962G3339G846G1504G575G1391G1519G1391G2509G575G4151G2962
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