a 2 Cor 5:12; 10:12, 18; 12:11
b Acts 18:27; 1 Cor 16:3
c 1 Cor 9:2
e 2 Cor 3:6
f Matt 16:16
g Ex 24:12; 31:18; 32:15f; 2 Cor 3:7
h Prov 3:3; 7:3; Jer 17:1
j Jer 31:33; Ezek 11:19; 36:26
k Eph 3:12
l 1 Cor 15:10
m 1 Cor 3:5
n Jer 31:31; Luke 22:20
o Rom 2:29
p John 6:63; Rom 7:6
q Rom 4:15; 5:20; 7:5f; 2 Cor 3:9; Gal 3:10, 21f
r Ex 24:12; 31:18; 32:15f; 2 Cor 3:3
t Ex 34:29-35; 2 Cor 3:13
u Deut 27:26; 2 Cor 3:7; Heb 12:18-21
v Rom 1:17; 3:21f
x 2 Cor 7:4
y Acts 4:13, 29; 2 Cor 7:4; Eph 6:19; 1 Thess 2:2
z Ex 34:33-35; 2 Cor 3:7
aa Rom 11:7; 2 Cor 4:4
ab Acts 13:15
ac 2 Cor 3:6
ae Ex 34:34; Rom 11:23
af Is 61:1f; Gal 4:6
ag John 8:32; Gal 5:1, 13
ah 1 Cor 13:12
ai John 17:22, 24; 2 Cor 4:4, 6
aj Rom 8:29
ak 2 Cor 3:17

2 Corinthians 3

Ministers of a New Covenant

1Are we beginning to acommend ourselves again? Or do we need, as some, bletters of commendation to you or from you? 2 cYou are our letter, written in our hearts, known and read by all men; 3being manifested that you are a letter of Christ, ▼
▼ Lit served
 , ecared for by us, written not with ink but with the Spirit of fthe living God, not on gtablets of stone but on htablets of ▼
▼ Lit hearts of flesh
 , jhuman hearts.

4Such kconfidence we have through Christ toward God. 5Not that we are adequate in ourselves to consider anything as coming from ourselves, but lour adequacy is from God, 6who also made us adequate as mservants of a nnew covenant, not of othe letter but of the Spirit; for the letter kills, but pthe Spirit gives life.

7But if the qministry of death, rin letters engraved on stones, came ▼
▼ Or in glory
with glory, tso that the sons of Israel could not look intently at the face of Moses because of the glory of his face, fading as it was, 8how will the ministry of the Spirit fail to be even more with glory? 9For if uthe ministry of condemnation has glory, much more does the vministry of righteousness abound in glory. 10For indeed what had glory, in this case has no glory because of the glory that surpasses it. 11For if that which fades away was ▼
▼ Lit through
with glory, much more that which remains is in glory.

12 xTherefore having such a hope, ywe use great boldness in our speech, 13and are not like Moses, z who used to put a veil over his face so that the sons of Israel would not look intently at the end of what was fading away. 14But their minds were aahardened; for until this very day at the abreading of acthe old covenant the same veil ▼
▼ Or remains, it not being revealed that it is done away in Christ
remains unlifted, because it is removed in Christ. 15But to this day whenever Moses is read, a veil lies over their heart; 16 aebut whenever a person turns to the Lord, the veil is taken away. 17Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where afthe Spirit of the Lord is, ag there is liberty. 18But we all, with unveiled face, ahbeholding as in a mirror the aiglory of the Lord, are being ajtransformed into the same image from glory to glory, just as from akthe Lord, the Spirit.
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