2 Corinthians 3 (ASV Interlinear Bible)

1Are we beginning again to commend ourselves? or need we, as do some, epistles of commendation to you or from you?

2Ye are our epistle, written in our hearts, known and read of all men;

3being made manifest that ye are an 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 tables that are hearts of flesh.

4And such confidence have we through Christ to God-ward:

5not that we are sufficient of ourselves, to account anything as from ourselves; but our sufficiency is from God;

6who also made us sufficient as ministers of a new covenant; not of the letter, but of the spirit: for the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life.

7But if the ministration of death,

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Greek in letters.

written, and engraven on stones, came

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Greek in.

with glory, so that the children of Israel could not look stedfastly upon the face of Moses for the glory of his face; which glory

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Or, was being done away. Compare 1 Cor. 13:8, 10.

was passing away:

8how shall not rather the ministration of the spirit be with glory?

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Many ancient authorities read For if the ministration of condemnation is glory.

For if the ministration of condemnation hath glory, much rather doth the ministration of righteousness exceed in glory.

10For verily that which hath been made glorious hath not been made glorious in this respect, by reason of the glory that surpasseth.

11For if that which

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Or, is being done away. See verse 7 margin.

passeth away was

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Greek through.

with glory, much more that which remaineth is in glory.

12Having therefore such a hope, we use great boldness of speech,

13and are not as Moses, who put a veil upon his face, that the children of Israel should not look stedfastly

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Or, unto

on the end of that which

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Or, was being done away. See verse 7 margin.

was passing away:

14but their

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Greek thoughts. 4:4; 11:3.

minds were hardened: for until this very day at the reading of the old covenant the same veil

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Or, remaineth unlifted; which veil is done away

remaineth, it not being revealed to them that it is done away in Christ.

15But unto this day, whensoever Moses is read, a veil lieth upon their heart.

16But whensoever

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Or, a man shall turn

it shall turn to the Lord, the veil is taken away.

17Now the Lord is the Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.

18But we all, with unveiled face

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Or, reflecting as a mirror

beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are transformed into the same image from glory to glory, even as from the Lord the Spirit.

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Pink strikethrough: in SBLGNT, omitted from the ASV-selected Greek reading. Green underline: in the ASV-selected reading, absent from SBLGNT.

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