II CORINTHIANS CHAPTER III

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 fleshly tables of the heart. 
4 And such trust have we through Christ to Godward:
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:
7 But if the ministration of death, written and 
engraven in stones, was glorious, so that the children
of Israel could not steadfastly 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 steadfastly
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.