1 Doe wee begin againe to commend our selues? or need wee, as some others, Epistles of commendation to you, or letters of commendation from you?
2 Ye are our Epistle written in our hearts, knowen and read of all men.
3 Forasmuch as yee are manifestly declared to be the Epistle of Christ ministred by vs, written not with inke, but with the spirit of the liuing God, not in tables of stone, but in fleshy tables of the heart.
4 And such trust haue wee through Christ to Godward:
5 Not that wee are sufficient of our selues to thinke any thing as of our selues: but our sufficiencie is of God:
6 Who also hath made vs able ministers of the New Testament, not of the letter, but of the spirit: for the letter killeth, but the spirit giueth life.
7 But if the ministration of death written, and ingrauen in stones, was glorious, so that the children of Israel could not stedfastly beholde the face of Moses, for the glory of his countenance, which glorie was to be done away:
8 How shall not the ministration of the spirit, be rather glorious?
9 For if the ministration of condemnation bee glory, much more doth the ministration of righteousnesse exceed in glorie.
10 For euen that which was made glorious, had no glorie in this respect by reason of the glorie that excelleth.
11 For if that which is done away, was glorious, much more that which remaineth is glorious.
12 Seeing then that wee haue such hope, we vse great plainnesse of speech.
13 And not as Moses, which put a vaile ouer his face, that the children of Israel could not stedfastly looke to the end of that which is abolished;
14 But their mindes were blinded: for vntill this day remaineth the same vaile vntaken away, in the reading of the old testament: which vaile is done away in Christ.
15 But euen vnto this day, when Moses is read, the vaile is vpon their heart.
16 Neuerthelesse, when it shall turne to the Lord, the vaile shall be taken away.
17 Now the Lord is that spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is libertie.
18 But we all, with open face beholding as in a glasse the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image, from glorie to glorie, euen as by the spirit of the Lord.
Chap 4
1 Therefore, seeing we haue this ministery, as we haue receiued mercie wee faint not:
2 But haue renounced the hidden things of dishonesty, not walking in craftines, nor handling the word of God deceitfully, but by manifestation of the trueth, commending our selues to euery mans conscience, in the sight of God.
3 But if our Gospel be hid, it is hid to them that are lost:
4 In whom the God of this world hath blinded the minds of them which beleeue not, lest the light of the glorious Gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine vnto them.
5 For we preach not our selues, but Christ Iesus the Lord, and our selues your seruants for Iesus sake.
6 For God who commaunded the light to shine out of darkenes, hath shined in our hearts, to giue the light of the knowledge of the glory of God, in the face of Iesus Christ.
2 Cor 3:1-4:6
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