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| 3:1 | Do we begin again to recommend ourselves, except we need, as some, letters of recommendation unto you, or from you? |
| 3:2 | our letter ye are, having been written in our hearts, known and read by all men, |
| 3:3 | manifested that ye are a letter of Christ ministered by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God, not in the tablets of stone, but in fleshy tablets of the heart, |
| 3:4 | and such trust we have through the Christ toward God, |
| 3:5 | not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think anything, as of ourselves, but our sufficiency `is' of God, |
| 3:6 | who also made us sufficient `to be' ministrants of a new covenant, not of letter, but of spirit; for the letter doth kill, and the spirit doth make alive. |
| 3:7 | and if the ministration of the death, in letters, engraved in stones, came in glory, so that the sons of Israel were not able to look stedfastly to the face of Moses, because of the glory of his face -- which was being made useless, |
| 3:8 | how shall the ministration of the Spirit not be more in glory? |
| 3:9 | for if the ministration of the condemnation `is' glory, much more doth the ministration of the righteousness abound in glory; |
| 3:10 | for also even that which hath been glorious, hath not been glorious -- in this respect, because of the superior glory; |
| 3:11 | for if that which is being made useless `is' through glory, much more that which is remaining `is' in glory. |
| 3:12 | Having, then, such hope, we use much freedom of speech, |
| 3:13 | and `are' not as Moses, who was putting a vail upon his own face, for the sons of Israel not stedfastly to look to the end of that which is being made useless, |
| 3:14 | but their minds were hardened, for unto this day the same vail at the reading of the Old Covenant doth remain unwithdrawn -- which in Christ is being made useless -- |
| 3:15 | but till to-day, when Moses is read, a vail upon their heart doth lie, |
| 3:16 | and whenever they may turn unto the Lord, the vail is taken away. |
| 3:17 | And the Lord is the Spirit; and where the Spirit of the Lord `is', there `is' liberty; |
| 3:18 | and we all, with unvailed face, the glory of the Lord beholding in a mirror, to the same image are being transformed, from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord. |
| 3:1 | We begyn to prayse oure selves agayne. Nede we as some other of pistles of recommendacion vnto you? or letters of recomendacion from you? |
| 3:2 | Ye are oure pistle written in oure hertes which is vnderstonde and reed of all men |
| 3:3 | in that ye are knowen how that ye are the pistle of Christ ministred by vs and written not with ynke: but with the sprete of the livynge God not in tables of stone but in flesshly tables of ye herte. |
| 3:4 | Suche trust have we thorow Christ to god ward |
| 3:5 | not that we are sufficient of oure selves to thinke enythinge as it were of oure selves: but oure ablenes cometh of God |
| 3:6 | which hath made vs able to minister the newe testamet not of the letter but of the sprete. For the letter kylleth but the sprete geveth lyfe. |
| 3:7 | Yf the ministracion of deeth thorow the letters figured in stones was glorious so yt the chyldren of Israel coulde not beholde the face of Moses for the glory of his countenauce (which glory neverthelesse is done awaye) |
| 3:8 | why shall not the ministracion of the sprete be moche more glorious? |
| 3:9 | For if ye ministringe of condempnacio beglorious: moche more do the the ministracion of rightewesnes excede in glory. |
| 3:10 | For no dout that which was there glorified is not once glorified in respecte of this excedynge glory. |
| 3:11 | Then if that which is destroyed was glorious moche more shall that which remayneth be glorious. |
| 3:12 | Seynge then that we have soche trust we vse gret boldnes |
| 3:13 | and do not as Moses which put a vayle over his face that the children of Israel shuld not se for what purpose that served which is put awaye. |
| 3:14 | But their myndes were blinded. For untill this daye remayneth the same coveringe vntake awaye in the olde testamet when they reade it which in Christ is put awaye. |
| 3:15 | But even vnto this daye when Moses is redde ye vayle hangeth before their hertes. |
| 3:16 | Neverthelesse when they tourne to ye Lorde the vayle shalbe taken awaye. |
| 3:17 | The Lorde no dout is a sprete. And where the sprete of the Lorde is there is libertie. |
| 3:18 | But we all beholde the glorye of the Lorde with his face open and are chaunged vnto the same similitude from glory to glory even of the sprite of the Lorde. |
| 3:1 | Begynne we then agayne to prayse or selues? Or nede we (as some other) of pistles of commedacion vnto you or letters of commedacion from you? |
| 3:2 | Ye are oure epistle wrytten in oure hertes: which is vnderstonde and red of all me, |
| 3:3 | in that ye are knowne, how that ye are ye epistle of Christ, mynistred by vs, and wrytte, not with ynke, but with the sprete of the lyuynge God: not in tables of stone, but in fleshy tables of the hert. |
| 3:4 | Soch trust haue we thorow Christ to God warde, |
| 3:5 | not that we are sufficient of oure selues to thynke eny thinge, as of oure selues, but oure ablenesse commeth of God, |
| 3:6 | which hath made vs able, to be mynisters of the new Testament: not of the letter, but of the sprete. For the letter kylleth, but the sprete geueth life. |
| 3:7 | But yf the mynistracion yt kylleth thorow the letter, and was figured in stones, was glorious, so that the childre of Israel mighte not beholde the face of Moses, for ye clearnesse of his countenauce, (which glory neuertheles is done awaye) |
| 3:8 | how shal not ye mynistracion of ye sprete be moch more glorious? |
| 3:9 | For yf the office that preacheth damnacion be glorious, moch more doth the office that preacheth righteousnes exceade in glory. |
| 3:10 | For ye other parte that was glorified is nothinge glorified in respecte of this exceadinge glory. |
| 3:11 | For yf that which is done awaye, be glorious, moch more shal yt which remayneth, be glorious. |
| 3:12 | Seynge then that we haue soch trust, we vse greate boldnesse, |
| 3:13 | and do not as Moses, which put a vayle before his face, so that ye children of Israel mighte not se the ende of it, that is done awaye. |
| 3:14 | But their myndes are blynded. For vnto this daye remayneth the same coueringe vntake awaye in the olde Testament, whan they rede it, which in Christ is put awaye. |
| 3:15 | But euen vnto this daye whan moses is red, the vayle hangeth before their hertes: |
| 3:16 | Neuertheles wha they turne to the LORDE, the vayle shalbe taken awaye. |
| 3:17 | For the LORDE is a sprete: & where the sprete of the LORDE is, there is libertye. |
| 3:18 | But now the glory of ye LORDE apeareth in vs all with open face, and we are chaunged into the same ymage, from one clearnes to another, eue as of the sprete of the LORDE. |
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