3: 2 Ye are our epistles, written in 25our hearts, known and read of all men;
25So p46BCA 81 0243 cop arm vg. ℵ33 read your
3: 3 being made manifest that ye are an epistle of Christ, ministered by us, written not with an ink, but with a spirit of a living God; not in tables of stone, but in tables that are hearts of flesh.
3: 4 And such confidence have we through Christ towards God:
3: 5 not that we are sufficient of ourselves, to account anything as from ourselves; but our sufficiency is from God;
3: 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 maketh alive.
3: 7 But if the ministration of death, 26written, and engraven on stones, came 27with glory, so that the sons of Israel could not look stedfastly upon the face of Moses for the glory of his face; which glory 28was passing away:
26Gk. in letters,
27Gk. in
28Or, was being done away: Compare 1Co 13:8, 10.
3: 8 how shall not rather the ministration of the spirit be with glory?
3: 9 For if 29to the ministration of condemnation be glory, much rather doth the ministration of righteousness exceed in glory.
29So p46ℵCA 1739 33 0243 1175 copsa. B 1881 and a majority of lesser Gk. mss., copbo vg omit to
3: 10 For verily that which hath been made glorious hath not been made glorious in this respect, by reason of the glory that surpasseth.
3: 11 For if that which 30passeth away be 31with glory, much more that which remaineth is in glory.
30Or, is being done away See vs. 7 margin.
31Gk. through glory,
3: 12 Having therefore such a hope, we use great boldness of speech,
3: 13 and are not as Moses, who put a veil upon his face, that the sons of Israel should not look stedfastly on the end of that 32which was passing away:
32Or, which is being done away: See note on vs. 7.
3: 14 but their 33minds were hardened: for until this very day at the reading of the old covenant the same veil 34remaineth, it not being revealed to them that it is done away in Christ.
33Gk. thoughts Ch. 4:4; 11:3.
34Or, remaineth unlifted; which veil is done away in Christ.
3: 15 But unto this day, whensoever Moses is read, a veil lieth upon their heart.
3: 16 But whensoever 35it shall turn to the Lord, the veil is taken away.
35Or, their heart shall turn or, a man shall turn
3: 17 Now the Lord is the Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.
3: 18 But we all, with unveiled face 36beholding 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.
36Or, reflecting as a mirror
