1 Do we begin again to commend ourselves? or need we, as some
2 Ye are our epistle written in our hearts, known and read of all men:
3 Forasmuch as ye are
4 And such trust have we through Christ to God-ward:
5 Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think any thing as of ourselves; but our sufficiency
6 Who also hath made us able ministers of the new testament; 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
8 How shall not the ministration of the spirit be rather glorious?
9 For if the ministration of condemnation
10 For even that which was made glorious had no glory in this respect, by reason of the glory that excelleth.
11 For if that which is done away
12 Seeing then that we have such hope, we use great plainness of speech:
13 And not as Moses,
14 But their minds were blinded: for until this day remaineth the same vail untaken away in the reading of the old testament; which
15 But even unto this day, when Moses is read, the vail is upon their heart.
16 Nevertheless when it shall turn to the Lord, the vail shall be taken away.
17 Now the Lord is that Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord
18 But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory,