The In-Dept Study of the Bible
Corinthians 03
1 Are we beginning again to commend
ourselves? Or do we need, as do some,
letters of commendation to you or from you?
2 You are our letter, written in our hearts,
known and read by all men,
3 being revealed that you are a letter of
Christ, served by us, written not with ink,
but with the Spirit of the living God; not
in tablets of stone, but in tablets that are
hearts of flesh.
4 Such confidence we have through
Christ toward God,
5 not that we are sufficient of ourselves
to account anything as from ourselves; but
our sufficiency is from God,
6 who also made us sufficient as servants
of a new covenant, not of the letter but of
the Spirit. For the letter kills, but the Spirit
gives life.
7 But if the service of death, written
engraved on stones, came with glory, so that
the children of Israel could not look
steadfastly on the face of Moses for the glory of
his face, which was passing away,
8 won’t service ofthe Spirit be with much
more glory?
9 For if the service of condemnation has
glory, the service of righteousness exceeds
much more in glory.
10 For most certainly that whichhasbeen
made glorious has not been made glorious
in this respect, by reason of the glory that
surpasses.
11 For ifthat which passes away was with
glory, much more that which remains is in
glory.
12 Having therefore such a hope, we use
great boldness of speech,
13 and not as Moses, who put a veil on his
face so that the children of Israel wouldn’t
look steadfastly on the end of that which
was passing away.
14 But their minds were hardened, for
until this very day at the reading of
the old covenant the same veil remains, because
in Christ it passes away.
15 But to this day, when Moses is read, a
veil lies on their heart.
16 But whenever someone turns to the
Lord, the veil is taken away.
17 Now the Lord is the Spirit; and where
the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.
18 But we all, with unveiled face seeing
the glory of the Lord as in a mirror, are
transformed into the same image from
glory to glory, even as from the Lord, the
Spirit.