3Are we beginning to recommend ourselves again? Unlike some people, we do not need letters of recommendation to you or from you, do we -G756G3825G4921G1438G1508G5535G5613G5100G1992G4956G4314G5209G2228G4956G1537G52162You are our letter, written in our hearts and known and read by everyone.G5210G2075G2257G1992G1449G1722G2257G2588G1097G2532G314G5259G3956G4443You are demonstrating that you are the Messiah's letter, produced by our service, written not with ink but with the Spirit of the living God, not on tablets of stone but on tablets of human hearts.3G5319G3754G2075G1992G5547G1247G5259G2257G1449G3756G3188G235G4151G2198G2316G3756G1722G4109G3035G235G1722G4560G4109G25884Such is the confidence that we have in God through the Messiah.G1161G5108G4006G2192G1223G5547G4314G23165By ourselves we are not qualified to claim that anything comes from us. Rather, our credentials come from God,G3756G3754G2070G2425G575G1438G3049G5100G5613G1537G1438G235G2257G2426G1537G23166who has also qualified us to be ministers of a new covenant, which is not written but spiritual, because the written text brings death, but the Spirit gives life.G3739G2532G2427G2248G2427G1249G2537G1242G3756G1121G235G4151G1063G1121G615G1161G4151G22277Now if the ministry of death that was inscribed in letters of stone came with such glory that the people of Israel could not gaze on Moses' face (because the glory was fading away from it),G1161G1487G1248G2288G1722G1121G1795G1722G3037G1096G1722G1391G5620G5207G2474G1410G3361G816G1519G4383G3475G1223G1391G846G4383G3588G26738will not the Spirit's ministry have even more glory -G4459G1248G3780G1248G4151G2071G3123G1722G13919For if the ministry of condemnation has glory, then the ministry of justification has an overwhelming glory.G1063G1487G1248G2633G1391G4183G3123G1248G1343G4052G1722G139110In fact, that which once had glory lost its glory, because the other glory surpassed it.G1063G2532G1392G3761G1392G1722G5129G3313G1752G1391G523511For if that which fades away came through glory, how much more does that which is permanent have glory -G1063G1487G2673G1223G1391G4183G3123G3306G1722G139112Therefore, since we have such a hope, we speak very boldly,G3767G2192G5108G1680G5530G4183G395413not like Moses, who kept covering his face with a veil to keep the people of Israel from gazing at the end of what was fading away.G2532G3756G2509G3475G5087G2571G1909G1438G4383G4314G5207G2474G816G3361G816G1519G5056G267314However, their minds were hardened, for to this day the same veil is still there when they read the old covenant. Only in union with the Messiah is that veil removed.G235G846G3540G4456G1063G891G4594G3306G846G2571G3361G343G1909G320G3820G1242G3748G2673G1722G554715Yet even to this day, when Moses is read, a veil covers their hearts.G235G2193G4594G2259G3475G314G2571G2749G1909G846G258816But whenever a person turns to the Lord, the veil is removed.G1161G2259G302G1994G4314G2962G2571G401417Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Lord's Spirit is, there is freedom.G1161G2962G2076G4151G1161G3757G4151G2962G1563G165718As all of us reflect the glory of the Lord with unveiled faces, we are becoming more like him with ever-increasing glory by the Lord's Spirit.314G1161G2249G3956G343G4383G2734G1391G2962G3339G846G1504G575G1391G1519G1391G2509G575G4151G2962
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