2 Corinthians 3

1Are we beginning again to commend ourselves? Or do we need, as do some, letters of commendation to you or from you?Cross-references: Acts 18:27 · 1Cor 3:10 · 1Cor 4:15 · 1Cor 10:33 · 1Cor 16:3 · 2Cor 2:17 · +5 more

2You are our letter, written in our hearts, known and read by all men,Cross-references: Rom 1:8 · 1Cor 3:10 · 1Cor 9:1 · 2Cor 7:3 · 2Cor 11:11 · 2Cor 12:15 · +2 more

3being 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.Cross-references: Ex 24:12 · Ex 31:18 · Ex 34:1 · Josh 3:10 · 1Sam 17:26 · Ps 40:8 · +25 more

4Such confidence we have through Christ toward God,Cross-references: Ex 18:19 · 2Cor 2:14 · Eph 3:12 · Phil 1:6 · 1Thess 1:8

5not that we are sufficient of ourselves to account anything as from ourselves; but our sufficiency is from God,Cross-references: Ex 4:10 · Jer 1:6 · Matt 10:19 · Luke 21:15 · Luke 24:49 · John 15:5 · +9 more

6who 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.Cross-references: Deut 27:26 · Jer 31:31 · Matt 13:52 · Matt 26:28 · Mark 14:24 · Luke 22:20 · +36 more

7But 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,Cross-references: Gen 3:21 · Ex 24:12 · Ex 31:18 · Ex 32:15 · Ex 32:19 · Ex 34:1 · +25 more

8won’t service of the Spirit be with much more glory?Cross-references: Isa 11:2 · Isa 44:3 · Isa 59:21 · Joel 2:28 · John 1:17 · John 7:39 · +16 more

9For if the service of condemnation has glory, the service of righteousness exceeds much more in glory.Cross-references: Ex 19:12 · Ex 20:18 · Isa 46:13 · Jer 23:6 · Rom 1:17 · Rom 3:21 · +15 more

10For most certainly that which has been made glorious has not been made glorious in this respect, by reason of the glory that surpasses.Cross-references: Job 25:5 · Isa 24:23 · Hag 2:3 · Hag 2:7 · Acts 26:13 · Phil 3:7 · +3 more

11For if that which passes away was with glory, much more that which remains is in glory.Cross-references: Rom 5:20 · 2Cor 3:6 · 2Cor 4:1 · Heb 7:21 · Heb 8:13 · Heb 12:25

12Having therefore such a hope, we use great boldness of speech,Cross-references: John 10:24 · John 16:25 · John 16:29 · Acts 4:13 · Acts 4:29 · Acts 9:27 · +12 more

13and 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.Cross-references: Ex 34:33 · Rom 10:4 · 2Cor 3:7 · Gal 3:23 · Eph 2:14 · Col 2:17 · +1 more

14But 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.Cross-references: Ps 69:23 · Isa 6:10 · Isa 25:7 · Isa 26:10 · Isa 42:18 · Isa 44:18 · +25 more

15But to this day, when Moses is read, a veil lies on their heart.Cross-references: Acts 13:27

16But whenever someone turns to the Lord, the veil is taken away.Cross-references: Ex 34:34 · Deut 4:30 · Deut 30:10 · Isa 25:7 · Isa 29:18 · Isa 54:13 · +6 more

17Now the Lord is the Spirit; and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.Cross-references: Ps 51:12 · Isa 61:1 · John 6:63 · John 8:32 · Rom 8:2 · Rom 8:15 · +6 more

18But 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.Cross-references: John 1:14 · John 12:41 · John 17:24 · Rom 8:4 · Rom 8:7 · Rom 8:29 · +14 more