1Do we begin to praise ourselves again? or need we as some others, Epistles of recommendation unto you, or letters of recommendation from you?
2Ye are our epistle, written in our hearts, which is understood and read of all men,
3In 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.
4And such trust have we through Christ to God:
5Not that we are sufficient of ourselves, to think anything, as of ourselves: but our sufficiency is of God,
6Who 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.
7If 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 gone away.)
8How shall not the ministration of the Spirit be more glorious?
9For if the ministry of condemnation was glorious, much more doth the ministration of righteousness exceed in glory.
10For even that which was glorified, was not glorified in this point, that is, as touching the exceeding glory.
11For if that they should be abolished, was glorious, much more shall that which remaineth be glorious.
12Seeing then that we have such trust, we use great boldness of speech.
13And we are not as Moses, which put a veil upon his face, that the children of Israel should not look unto the end of that which should be abolished.
14Therefore their minds are hardened: for until this day remaineth the same covering untaken away in the reading of the old Testament, which veil in Christ is put away.
15But even unto this day, when Moses is read, the veil is laid over their hearts.
16Nevertheless when their heart shall be turned to the Lord, the veil shall be taken away.
17Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.
18But 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.