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| [1]Do we begin again to show you who we are? Or do we, like others, need that letters recommendatory of us should be written to you? Or, that ye should write recommendations of us? |
[1]Do we begin to praise ourselves again? or need we as some other, epistles of recommendation unto you, or letters of recommendation from you? |
| [2]Ye are our epistle, written on our hearts, and known and read by every man. |
[2]Ye are our epistle, written in our hearts, which is understand and read of all men, |
| [3]For ye know that ye are an epistle of the Messiah, ministered by us; not written with ink, but by the Spirit of the living God; not on tables of stone, but on the tablets of the heart of flesh. |
[3]In that ye are manifest, to be the Epistle of Christ, ministered by us, and written, not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God, not in tables of stone, but in fleshly tables of the heart. |
| [4]And such confidence have we in the Messiah towards God. |
[4]And such trust have we through Christ to God: |
| [5]Not that we are sufficient to think any thing as of ourselves; but our efficiency is from God: |
[5]Not that we are sufficient of ourselves, to think any thing, as of ourselves: but our sufficiency is of God. |
| [6]who hath fitted us to be ministers of the new Testament, not in the letter, but in the Spirit; for the letter killeth, but the Spirit giveth life. |
[6]Who also hath made us able ministers of the New testament, not of the letter but of the Spirit: for the letter killeth, but the Spirit giveth life. |
| [7]Now if the ministration of death was engraved upon stones in writing, and was so glorious that the children of Israel could not look on the face of Moses, on account of the glory upon his face which vanished away; |
[7]If then the ministration of death written with letters and engraven in stones, was glorious so that the children of Israel could not behold the face of Moses for the glory of his countenance (which glory is done away) |
| [8]how then shall not the ministration of the Spirit be still more glorious? |
[8]How shall not the ministration of the Spirit be more glorious? |
| [9]For if there was glory in the ministration of condemnation, how much more shall the ministration of justification excel in glory? |
[9]For if the ministry of condemnation was glorious, much more doth the ministration of righteousness exceed in glory. |
| [10]For that which was glorious, was as if not glorious, in comparison with this which excelleth in glory. |
[10]For even that which was glorified, was not glorified in this point , that is, as touching the exceeding glory. |
| [11]For if that which is abolished was glorious, much more must that which abideth be glorious. |
[11]For if that which should be abolished, was glorious, much more shall that which remaineth, be glorious. |
| [12]Seeing therefore we have this hope, we the more speak with boldness; |
[12]Seeing then that we have such trust, we use great boldness of speech. |
| [13]and are not like Moses, who threw a vail over his face, that the children of Israel might not behold the termination of that which was abolished. |
[13]And we are not as Moses, which put a vail upon his face, that the children of Israel should not look unto the end of that which should be abolished. |
| [14]But they were blinded in their understanding; for until this day, when the old Testament is read, the same vail resteth upon them; nor is it manifest [to them], that it is abolished by the Messiah. |
[14]Therefore their minds are hardened: for until this day remaineth the same covering untaken away in the reading of the Old Testament, which vail in Christ is put away. |
| [15]And unto this day, when Moses is read, a vail is thrown upon their hearts. |
[15]But even unto this day, when Moses is read, the veil is laid over their hearts. |
| [16]But when any of them is turned unto the Lord, the vail is taken from him. |
[16]Nevertheless when their heart shall be turned to the Lord, the vail shall be taken away. |
| [17]Now the Lord himself is the Spirit. And where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom. |
[17]Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty. |
| [18]And we all, with uncovered faces, behold as in a mirror the glory of the Lord; and are transformed into the same likeness, from glory to glory, as by the Lord the Spirit. |
[18]But we all behold as in a mirror the glory of the Lord with open face, and are changed into the same image, from glory to glory, as by the Spirit of the Lord. |