2 Corintios 3:12

12 Así que, teniendo tal esperanza, hablamos con mucha confianza

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 Porque lo que fue tan glorioso, en esta parte ni aun fue glorioso, en comparación con la excelente gloria

11 Porque si lo que perece es para gloria, mucho más será para gloria lo que permanece

12 Así que, teniendo tal esperanza, hablamos con mucha confianza

13 y no como Moisés, que ponía un velo sobre su faz, para que los hijos de Israel no pusieran los ojos en su cara, cuya gloria había de perecer

14 (Y así los sentidos de ellos se embotaron; porque hasta el día de hoy les queda el mismo velo no descubierto en la lección del Antiguo Testamento, el cual en Cristo es quitado