Help QuickNav Adv. Options
BBE

BBE

Click to Change

Return to Top

Return to Top

Printer Icon

Print

Copy
Copy Options
Format by: Verse Paragraph
Strong's
Red Letter
Audio Bibles
Copy Options
Cite Print
The Blue Letter Bible

2 Corinthians 3 :: Bible in Basic English (BBE)

Choose a new font size and typeface
Audio Bibles

Ministers of a New Covenant

(cf. Jer 31:31–34 )

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box 2Co 3:1

Unchecked Copy Box2Co 3:1 - Do we seem to be again attempting to put ourselves in the right? or have we need, as some have, of letters of approval to you or from you?

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box 2Co 3:2

Unchecked Copy Box2Co 3:2 - You yourselves are our letter, whose writing is in our heart, open for every man's reading and knowledge;

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box 2Co 3:3

Unchecked Copy Box2Co 3:3 - For you are clearly a letter of Christ, the fruit of our work, recorded not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; not in stone, but in hearts of flesh.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box 2Co 3:4

Unchecked Copy Box2Co 3:4 - And this is the certain faith which we have in God through Christ:

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box 2Co 3:5

Unchecked Copy Box2Co 3:5 - Not as if we were able by ourselves to do anything for which we might take the credit; but our power comes from God;

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box 2Co 3:6

Unchecked Copy Box2Co 3:6 - Who has made us able to be servants of a new agreement; not of the letter, but of the Spirit: for the letter gives death, but the Spirit gives life.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box 2Co 3:7

Unchecked Copy Box2Co 3:7 - For if the operation of the law, giving death, recorded in letters on stone, came with glory, so that the eyes of the children of Israel had to be turned away from the face of Moses because of its glory, a glory which was only for a time:

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box 2Co 3:8

Unchecked Copy Box2Co 3:8 - Will not the operation of the Spirit have a much greater glory?

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box 2Co 3:9

Unchecked Copy Box2Co 3:9 - For if the operation of the law, producing punishment, had its glory, how much greater will be the operation of the Spirit causing righteousness?

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box 2Co 3:10

Unchecked Copy Box2Co 3:10 - For the glory of the first no longer seems to be glory, because of the greater glory of that which comes after.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box 2Co 3:11

Unchecked Copy Box2Co 3:11 - For if the order which was for a time had its glory, much more will the eternal order have its glory.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box 2Co 3:12

Unchecked Copy Box2Co 3:12 - Having then such a hope, we keep nothing back,

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box 2Co 3:13

Unchecked Copy Box2Co 3:13 - And are not like Moses, who put a veil on his face, so that the children of Israel might not see clearly to the end of the present order of things:

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box 2Co 3:14

Unchecked Copy Box2Co 3:14 - But their minds were made hard: for to this very day at the reading of the old agreement the same veil is still unlifted; though it is taken away in Christ.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box 2Co 3:15

Unchecked Copy Box2Co 3:15 - But to this day, at the reading of the law of Moses, a veil is over their heart.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box 2Co 3:16

Unchecked Copy Box2Co 3:16 - But when it is turned to the Lord, the veil will be taken away.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box 2Co 3:17

Unchecked Copy Box2Co 3:17 - Now the Lord is the Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there the heart is free.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box 2Co 3:18

Unchecked Copy Box2Co 3:18 - But we all, with unveiled face giving back as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as from the Lord who is the Spirit.
BBE

The Bible in Basic English was translated by Professor Samuel Henry Hooke (1874-1968)
This translation of the Bible is in the public domain.

Pericope

Pericope taken from the NASB95 and has been graciously provided by The Lockman Foundation, La Habra, Calif. All rights reserved.

New American Standard Bible
Copyright © 1960, 1962, 1963, 1968, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1975, 1977, 1995
by The Lockman Foundation, La Habra, Calif.
All rights reserved.

BLB Searches
Search the Bible
BBE
  [?]

Advanced Options

Other Searches

Multi-Verse Retrieval
x
BBE
Daily Devotionals
x

Blue Letter Bible offers several daily devotional readings in order to help you refocus on Christ and the Gospel of His peace and righteousness.

Daily Bible Reading Plans
x

Recognizing the value of consistent reflection upon the Word of God in order to refocus one's mind and heart upon Christ and His Gospel of peace, we provide several reading plans designed to cover the entire Bible in a year.

One-Year Plans

Two-Year Plan

2 Corinthians Chapter 3 — Additional Translations:

King James Version New King James Version New Living Translation New International Version English Standard Version Christian Standard Bible New American Standard Bible 2020 New American Standard Bible 1995 Legacy Standard Bible Amplified Bible New English Translation Revised Standard Version American Standard Version Young's Literal Translation Darby Translation Webster's Bible Hebrew Names Version Latin Vulgate Morphological Greek New Testament Textus Receptus Smith Van Dyck Arabic Bible Open New Arabic Version Reina Valera 1909 Reina-Valera 1960 Chinese Traditional Union Espanol Moderno Korean Holy Bible Louis Segond German Luther Russian Synodal Translation Sagradas Escrituras