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December 1
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Complete King James Bible
2 Corinthians 3
1 - Do we begin again to commend ourselves? or need we, as some [others], epistles of commendation to you, or [letters] of commendation from you?
2 - Ye are our epistle written in our hearts, known and read of all men:
3 - [Forasmuch as ye are] manifestly declared to be the epistle of Christ ministered by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; not in tables of stone, but in fleshy tables of the heart.
4 - And such trust have we through Christ to God-ward:
5 - Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think any thing as of ourselves; but our sufficiency [is] of God;
6 - Who also hath made us able ministers of the new testament; not of the letter, but of the spirit: for the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life.
7 - But if the ministration of death, written [and] engraven in stones, was glorious, so that the children of Israel could not stedfastly behold the face of Moses for the glory of his countenance; which [glory] was to be done away:
8 - How shall not the ministration of the spirit be rather glorious?
9 - For if the ministration of condemnation [be] glory, much more doth the ministration of righteousness exceed in glory.
10 - For even that which was made glorious had no glory in this respect, by reason of the glory that excelleth.
11 - For if that which is done away [was] glorious, much more that which remaineth [is] glorious.
12 - Seeing then that we have such hope, we use great plainness of speech:
13 - And not as Moses, [which] put a vail over his face, that the children of Israel could not stedfastly look to the end of that which is abolished:
14 - But their minds were blinded: for until this day remaineth the same vail untaken away in the reading of the old testament; which [vail] is done away in Christ.
15 - But even unto this day, when Moses is read, the vail is upon their heart.
16 - Nevertheless when it shall turn to the Lord, the vail shall be taken away.
17 - Now the Lord is that Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord [is], there [is] liberty.
18 - But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, [even] as by the Spirit of the Lord.
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