Chapter
Corinthians 2 3

Book of Corinthians 2 - Chapter 3

Corinthians 2 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?

Corinthians 2 3:2

Ye are our epistle written in our hearts, known and read of all men:

Corinthians 2 3:3

[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 fleshly tables of the heart.

Corinthians 2 3:4

And such trust have we through Christ to God-ward:

Corinthians 2 3:5

Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think any thing as of ourselves; but our sufficiency [is] of God;

Corinthians 2 3:6

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.

Corinthians 2 3:7

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:

Corinthians 2 3:8

How shall not the ministration of the spirit be rather glorious?

Corinthians 2 3:9

For if the ministration of condemnation [be] glory, much more doth the ministration of righteousness exceed in glory.

Corinthians 2 3:10

For even that which was made glorious had no glory in this respect, by reason of the glory that excelleth.

Corinthians 2 3:11

For if that which is done away [was] glorious, much more that which remaineth [is] glorious.

Corinthians 2 3:12

Seeing then that we have such hope, we use great plainness of speech:

Corinthians 2 3:13

And not as Moses, [which] put a veil over his face, that the children of Israel could not stedfastly look to the end of that which is abolished:

Corinthians 2 3:14

But their minds were blinded: for until this day remaineth the same veil untaken away in the reading of the old testament; which [veil] is done away in Christ.

Corinthians 2 3:15

But even unto this day, when Moses is read, the veil is upon their heart.

Corinthians 2 3:16

Nevertheless when it shall turn to the Lord, the veil shall be taken away.

Corinthians 2 3:17

Now the Lord is that Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord [is], there [is] liberty.

Corinthians 2 3:18

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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