2 Corinthians 3 :: New American Standard Bible 1995 (NASB95)

Ministers of a New Covenant

(cf. Jer 31:31–34 )

2Co 3:1Are we beginning to commend ourselves again? Or do we need, as some, letters of commendation to you or from you?

2Co 3:2You are our letter, written in our hearts, known and read by all men;

2Co 3:3being manifested that you are a letter of Christ, [fn]cared for by us, written not with ink but with the Spirit of the living God, not on tablets of stone but on tablets of [fn]human hearts.

2Co 3:4

2Co 3:4Such confidence we have through Christ toward God.

2Co 3:5

2Co 3:5Not that we are adequate in ourselves to consider anything as coming from ourselves, but our adequacy is from God,

2Co 3:6

2Co 3:6who also made us adequate as servants of a new covenant, not of the letter but of the Spirit; for the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.

2Co 3:7

2Co 3:7But if the ministry of death, in letters engraved on stones, came [fn]with glory, so 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,

2Co 3:8

2Co 3:8how will the ministry of the Spirit fail to be even more with glory?

2Co 3:9

2Co 3:9For if the ministry of condemnation has glory, much more does the ministry of righteousness abound in glory.

2Co 3:10

2Co 3:10For indeed what had glory, in this case has no glory because of the glory that surpasses it.

2Co 3:11

2Co 3:11For if that which fades away was [fn]with glory, much more that which remains is in glory.

2Co 3:12

2Co 3:12Therefore having such a hope, we use great boldness in our speech,

2Co 3:13

2Co 3:13and are not like Moses, 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.

2Co 3:14

2Co 3:14But their minds were hardened; for until this very day at the reading of the old covenant the same veil [fn]remains unlifted, because it is removed in Christ.

2Co 3:15

2Co 3:15But to this day whenever Moses is read, a veil lies over their heart;

2Co 3:16

2Co 3:16but whenever a person turns to the Lord, the veil is taken away.

2Co 3:17

2Co 3:17Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.

2Co 3:18

2Co 3:18But we all, with unveiled face, beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory, just as from the Lord, the Spirit.

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NASB95 Footnotes

(3:3)

Literally: served

(3:3)

Literally: hearts of flesh

(3:7)

Or, in glory

(3:11)

Literally: through

(3:14)

Or, remains, it not being revealed that it is done away in Christ

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