| King James Bible | New American Standard Bible 1995 |
| 1Do we begin again to commend ourselves? or need we, as some others, epistles of commendation to you, or letters of commendation from you? | 1Are we beginning to commend ourselves again? Or do we need, as some, letters of commendation to you or from you? |
| 2Ye are our epistle written in our hearts, known and read of all men: | 2You are our letter, written in our hearts, known and read by all men; |
| 3Forasmuch as ye are manifestly declared to be the epistle of Christ ministered by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; not in tables of stone, but in fleshy tables of the heart. | 3being manifested that you are a letter of Christ, cared for 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. |
| 4And such trust have we through Christ to God-ward: | 4Such confidence we have through Christ toward God. |
| 5Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think any thing as of ourselves; but our sufficiency is of God; | 5Not that we are adequate in ourselves to consider anything as coming from ourselves, but our adequacy is from 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. | 6who also made us adequate as servants of a new covenant, not of the letter but of the Spirit; for the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life. |
| 7But if the ministration of death, written and engraven in stones, was glorious, so that the children of Israel could not stedfastly behold the face of Moses for the glory of his countenance; which glory was to be done away: | 7But if the ministry of death, in letters engraved 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, fading as it was, |
| 8How shall not the ministration of the spirit be rather glorious? | 8how will the ministry of the Spirit fail to be even more with glory? |
| 9For if the ministration of condemnation be glory, much more doth the ministration of righteousness exceed in glory. | 9For if the ministry of condemnation has glory, much more does the ministry of righteousness abound in glory. |
| 10For even that which was made glorious had no glory in this respect, by reason of the glory that excelleth. | 10For indeed what had glory, in this case has no glory because of the glory that surpasses it. |
| 11For if that which is done away was glorious, much more that which remaineth is glorious. | 11For if that which fades away was with glory, much more that which remains is in glory. |
| 12Seeing then that we have such hope, we use great plainness of speech: | 12Therefore having such a hope, we use great boldness in our speech, |
| 13And not as Moses, which put a vail over his face, that the children of Israel could not stedfastly look to the end of that which is abolished: | 13and are not like Moses, who used to put a veil over his face so that the sons of Israel would not look intently at the end of what was fading away. |
| 14But their minds were blinded: for until this day remaineth the same vail untaken away in the reading of the old testament; which vail is done away in Christ. | 14But their minds were hardened; for until this very day at the reading of the old covenant the same veil remains unlifted, because it is removed in Christ. |
| 15But even unto this day, when Moses is read, the vail is upon their heart. | 15But to this day whenever Moses is read, a veil lies over their heart; |
| 16Nevertheless when it shall turn to the Lord, the vail shall be taken away. | 16but whenever a person turns to the Lord, the veil is taken away. |
| 17Now the Lord is that Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty. | 17Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty. |
| 18But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord. | 18But we all, with unveiled face, beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory, just as from the Lord, the Spirit. |
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