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2 Corinthians 3

The Complete Jewish Bible CJB

1 Are we starting to recommend ourselves again? Or do we, like some, need letters of recommendation either to you or from you?

2 You yourselves are our letter of recommendation, written on our hearts, known and read by everyone.

3 You make it clear that you are a letter from the Messiah placed in our care, written not with ink but by the Spirit of the living God, not on stone tablets but on human hearts.

4 Such is the confidence we have through the Messiah toward God.

5 It is not that we are competent in ourselves to count anything as having come from us; on the contrary, our competence is from God.

6 He has even made us competent to be workers serving a New Covenant, the essence of which is not a written text but the Spirit. For the written text brings death, but the Spirit gives life.

7 Now if that which worked death, by means of a written text engraved on stone tablets, came with glory - such glory that the people of Isra'el could not stand to look at Moshe's face because of its brightness, even though that brightness was already fading away -

8 won't the working of the Spirit be accompanied by even greater glory?

9 For if there was glory in what worked to declare people guilty, how much more must the glory abound in what works to declare people innocent!

10 In fact, by comparison with this greater glory, what was made glorious before has no glory now.

11 For if there was glory in what faded away, how much more glory must there be in what lasts.

12 Therefore, with a hope like this, we are very open -

13 unlike Moshe, who put a veil over his face, so that the people of Isra'el would not see the fading brightness come to an end.

14 What is more, their minds were made stonelike; for to this day the same veil remains over them when they read the Old Covenant; it has not been unveiled, because only by the Messiah is the veil taken away.

15 Yes, till today, whenever Moshe is read, a veil lies over their heart.

16 "But," says the Torah, "whenever someone turns to ADONAI, the veil is taken away."a

17 Now, "ADONAI" in this text means the Spirit. And where the Spirit of ADONAI is, there is freedom.

18 So all of us, with faces unveiled, see as in a mirror the glory of the Lord; and we are being changed into his very image, from one degree of glory to the next, by ADONAI the Spirit.

The Bible in Basic English BBE

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?

2 You yourselves are our letter, whose writing is in our heart, open for every man's reading and knowledge;

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.

4 And this is the certain faith which we have in God through Christ:

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;

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.

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:

8 Will not the operation of the Spirit have a much greater glory?

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?

10 For the glory of the first no longer seems to be glory, because of the greater glory of that which comes after.

11 For if the order which was for a time had its glory, much more will the eternal order have its glory.

12 Having then such a hope, we keep nothing back,

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:

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.

15 But to this day, at the reading of the law of Moses, a veil is over their heart.

16 But when it is turned to the Lord, the veil will be taken away.

17 Now the Lord is the Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there the heart is free.

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.