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Are we beginning to commend ourselves again? Or do we need, like some people, letters of recommendation to you or from you?
Ministers of the New Covenant
Are we beginning to commend ourselves again? Or do we need, as some do, letters of recommendation to you, or from you?
Are we beginning to commend ourselves again? Or do we need, as some do, letters of recommendation to you, or from you?
You yourselves are our letter, written on our hearts, known and read by everyone.
You show that you are a letter from Christ, the result of our ministry, written not with ink but with the Spirit of the living God, not on tablets of stone but on tablets of human hearts.
Such confidence we have through Christ before God.
Such is the confidence that we have through Christ toward God.
Not that we are competent in ourselves to claim anything for ourselves, but our competence comes from God.
Not that we are sufficient in ourselves to claim anything as coming from us, but our sufficiency is from God,
He has made us competent as ministers of a new covenant — not of the letter but of the Spirit; for the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.
who has made us sufficient to be ministers of a new covenant, not of the letter but of the Spirit. For the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.
The Greater Glory of the New Covenant
Now if the ministry that brought death, which was engraved in letters on stone, came with glory, so that the Israelites could not look steadily at the face of Moses because of its glory, transitory though it was,
Now if the ministry that brought death, which was engraved in letters on stone, came with glory, so that the Israelites could not look steadily at the face of Moses because of its glory, transitory though it was,
Now if the ministry of death, carved in letters on stone, came with such glory that the Israelites could not gaze at Moses’ face because of its glory, which was being brought to an end,
will not the ministry of the Spirit be even more glorious?
will not the ministry of the Spirit have even more glory?
If the ministry that brought condemnation was glorious, how much more glorious is the ministry that brings righteousness!
For if there was glory in the ministry of condemnation, the ministry of righteousness must far exceed it in glory.
For what was glorious has no glory now in comparison with the surpassing glory.
Indeed, in this case, what once had glory has come to have no glory at all, because of the glory that surpasses it.
And if what was transitory came with glory, how much greater is the glory of that which lasts!
For if what was being brought to an end came with glory, much more will what is permanent have glory.
Therefore, since we have such a hope, we are very bold.
Since we have such a hope, we are very bold,
We are not like Moses, who would put a veil over his face to prevent the Israelites from seeing the end of what was passing away.
not like Moses, who would put a veil over his face so that the Israelites might not gaze at the outcome of what was being brought to an end.
But their minds were made dull, for to this day the same veil remains when the old covenant is read. It has not been removed, because only in Christ is it taken away.
But their minds were hardened. For to this day, when they read the old covenant, that same veil remains unlifted, because only through Christ is it taken away.
Even to this day when Moses is read, a veil covers their hearts.
Yes, to this day whenever Moses is read a veil lies over their hearts.
But whenever anyone turns to the Lord, the veil is taken away.
Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom.