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3 Do we begin again to commend ourselves? {Or do we}[fn] need, as some do, letters {of recommendation}[fn] to you or from you?
2 You are our letter, written on our hearts, known and read by all men; 3 being revealed that you are a letter of Christ, ministered by us, written not with ink but with the Spirit of the living God, not on tablets of stone but on tablets of human hearts.
4 Such confidence we have through Christ toward God.
5 Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think anything as of ourselves, but our sufficiency is from God, 6 who also made us sufficient as ministers of a new covenant, not of the letter but of the Spirit; for the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.
7 Now if the ministry of death, engraved in letters on stones, came with glory, so that the sons of Israel could not look intently at the face of Moses because of the glory of his face, which was fading away, 8 how will the ministry of the Spirit not be even more glorious? 9 For if the ministry of condemnation had glory, much more does the ministry of righteousness abound in glory.
10 For indeed, what had been glorious in this case has not been glorified on account of the surpassing glory. 11 For if that which fades away was with glory, much more that which remains is in glory.
12 Therefore, having such a hope, we use great boldness, 13 and not like Moses, who put a veil over his face so that the sons of Israel would not look intently at the end of what was fading away. 14 But their thoughts were hardened. For until this very day the same veil remains upon the reading of the old covenant, not being unveiled, because it is abolished in Christ. 15 But to this day, whenever Moses is read, a veil lies over their hearts; 16 but whenever one 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 freedom.
18 And we all, with unveiled faces, beholding the glory of the Lord as in a mirror, are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory, just as from the Lord, the Spirit.