The Epistles of Paul to the Corinthians.
The Harvard Classics. 1909–14. |
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| The Second Epistle of Paul to the Corinthians |
| | | III |
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| [1] | ARE we beginning again to commend ourselves? or need we, as do some, epistles of commendation to you or from you? |
| [2] | Ye are our epistle, written in our hearts, known and read of all men; |
| [3] | being made manifest that ye are an 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 tables that are hearts of flesh. |
| [4] | And such confidence have we through Christ to God-ward: |
| [5] | not that we are sufficient of ourselves, to account anything as from ourselves; but our sufficiency is from God; |
| [6] | who also made us sufficient as ministers of a new covenant; 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, 1 and engraven on stones, came with 2 glory, so that the children of Israel could not look stedfastly upon the face of Moses for the glory of his face; which glory was 3 passing away: |
| [8] | how shall not rather the ministration of the spirit be with glory? |
| [9] | For 4 if the ministration of condemnation hath glory, much rather doth the ministration of righteousness exceed in glory. |
| [10] | For verily that which hath been made glorious hath not been made glorious in this respect, by reason of the glory that surpasseth. |
| [11] | For if that which passeth 5 away was with 6 glory, much more that which remaineth is in glory. |
| [12] | Having therefore such a hope, we use great boldness of speech, |
| [13] | and are not as Moses, who put a veil upon his face, that the children of Isreal should not look stedfastly on 7 the end of that which was 8 passing away: |
| [14] | but their minds 9 were hardened: for until this very day at the reading of the old covenant the same veil remaineth, 10 it not being revealed to them that it is done away in Christ. |
| [15] | But unto this day, whensoever Moses is read, a veil lieth upon their heart. |
| [16] | But whensoever it 11 shall turn to the Lord is the Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty. |
| [18] | But we all, with unveiled face beholding 12 as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are transformed into the same image from glory to glory, even as from the Lord the Spirit. |
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