II Corinthians 3
The Proof of Our Ministry
1 Do we have to commend ourselves again? Or do we need, as others do, letters of approval to you or from you?
2 You are our letter, written on our hearts, known and read by all men.
Through our ministry to you, you are declared most definitely to be the letter of Christ, not written with ink, but by the Spirit of the living God, and not on stone tablets, but on the tablets of the heart.
4 We have this trust through Christ toward God.
We are not sufficient in ourselves, and we don't think we are, but our sufficiency comes from God.
6 Who has made us able ministers of the New Covenant, not of the letter, but of the Spirit: for the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.
But if the ministry of death written on stones, was so glorious that the children of Israel were not able to keep looking at the face of Moses, because of the glory of his face, even though that glory would be done away with:
8 How much more will the ministry of the Spirit be glorious?
For if the ministry of condemnation had glory, how much more will the ministry of righteousness surpass it in glory.
10 That which was made glorious, has no glory at all, compared to the glory that surpasses it.
If that which was done away with was glorious, that which remains is much more glorious.
12 Since we have such hope we speak plainly.
Not like Moses, who put a veil over his face so that the children of Israel were not able to look at the end of that which has been done away with.
14 But their minds were blinded: and the same veil remains and has not been taken away, in the reading of the Old Testament; but that veil is removed in Christ.
Even today when Moses is read the veil is on their heart.
16 But if we turn to the Lord the veil is taken away.
The Lord is that Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord is there is freedom.
18 But we all with unveiled faces are looking at the glory of the Lord, and are changed into the same image: from glory to glory, by the Spirit of the Lord.
2 You are our letter, written on our hearts, known and read by all men.
Through our ministry to you, you are declared most definitely to be the letter of Christ, not written with ink, but by the Spirit of the living God, and not on stone tablets, but on the tablets of the heart.
4 We have this trust through Christ toward God.
We are not sufficient in ourselves, and we don't think we are, but our sufficiency comes from God.
6 Who has made us able ministers of the New Covenant, not of the letter, but of the Spirit: for the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.
But if the ministry of death written on stones, was so glorious that the children of Israel were not able to keep looking at the face of Moses, because of the glory of his face, even though that glory would be done away with:
8 How much more will the ministry of the Spirit be glorious?
For if the ministry of condemnation had glory, how much more will the ministry of righteousness surpass it in glory.
10 That which was made glorious, has no glory at all, compared to the glory that surpasses it.
If that which was done away with was glorious, that which remains is much more glorious.
12 Since we have such hope we speak plainly.
Not like Moses, who put a veil over his face so that the children of Israel were not able to look at the end of that which has been done away with.
14 But their minds were blinded: and the same veil remains and has not been taken away, in the reading of the Old Testament; but that veil is removed in Christ.
Even today when Moses is read the veil is on their heart.
16 But if we turn to the Lord the veil is taken away.
The Lord is that Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord is there is freedom.
18 But we all with unveiled faces are looking at the glory of the Lord, and are changed into the same image: from glory to glory, by the Spirit of the Lord.
Compiled by: Joseph Zeiss
Edited by: Joel Barrios
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Edited by: Joel Barrios
Click Link Below For Joel's YouTube Channel: The Wake Up Call
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