2 Corintios 3:12

12 Teniendo, por tanto, tal esperanza, hablamos con mucha franqueza,

2 Corintios 3:12 Meaning and Commentary

2 Corinthians 3:12

Seeing then that we have such hope
Having this confidence, and being fully persuaded that God has made us able and sufficient ministers of the Gospel, has called and qualified us for such service; and since we have such a ministry committed to us, which so much exceeds in glory the ministry of Moses, a ministry not of death and condemnation, but of the Spirit and of righteousness; not which is abolished and done away, but which does and will remain, in spite of all the opposition of hell and earth:

we use great plainness of speech;
plain and intelligible words, not ambiguous ones: or "boldness"; we are not afraid of men nor devils; we are not terrified by menaces, stripes, imprisonment, and death itself: or "freedom of speech"; we speak out all our mind, which is the mind of Christ; we declare the whole counsel of God, hide and conceal nothing that may be profitable to the churches; we are not to be awed by the terror, or drawn by the flatteries of men to cover the truth; we speak it out plainly, clearly, with all evidence and perspicuity. The apostle from hence passes on to observe another difference between the law and the Gospel, namely, the obscurity of the one, and the clearness of the other.

2 Corintios 3:12 In-Context

10 Pues en verdad, lo que tenía gloria, en este caso no tiene gloria por razón de la gloria que lo sobrepasa.

11 Porque si lo que se desvanece fue con gloria, mucho más es con gloria lo que permanece.

12 Teniendo, por tanto, tal esperanza, hablamos con mucha franqueza,

13 y no somos como Moisés, que ponía un velo sobre su rostro para que los hijos de Israel no fijaran su vista en el fin de aquello que había de desvanecerse.

14 Pero el entendimiento de ellos se endureció; porque hasta el día de hoy, en la lectura del antiguo pacto el mismo velo permanece sin alzarse, pues sólo en Cristo es quitado.