1 Are we beginning to commend ourselves again? Or like some, do we need letters of recommendation to you⁺ or from you⁺? VP
2 You⁺ are our letter, having been inscribed in our hearts, being known and being read by all men, VP
3 being revealed that you⁺ are a letter of Christ, having been ministered to by us, having been inscribed not in ink but with [the] Spirit of [the] living God, not in tablets of stone but in tablets of fleshly hearts. VP
4 Now we have such confidence through Christ toward God. VP
5 Not that we are sufficient from ourselves to reckon anything as of ourselves, but our sufficiency [is] of God, VP
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. VP
7 Now if the ministry of death, having been engraved in letters on stones, came into being in glory so as for the sons of Israel not to be able to look intently into the face of Moses on account of the glory of his face that is fading away, VP
8 how will the ministry of the Spirit not be more in glory? VP
9 For if in the ministry of condemnation [was] glory, much more does the ministry of righteousness abound [in] glory! VP
10 For even that having been glorious has no glory in this respect, on account of the glory surpassing [it]. VP
11 For if that which is fading away [was] through glory, much more [is] that remaining in glory! VP
12 Therefore having such a hope, we use much boldness, VP
13 and not as Moses was putting a veil over his face for the sons of Israel not to look intently into the end of what [was] fading away. VP
14 But their minds were hardened; for until the present day, the same veil remains upon the reading of the old covenant, not being unveiled, which is removed in Christ. VP
15 But until today when Moses is read, a veil lies upon their heart. VP
16 But whenever [one] may turn to [the] Lord, the veil is taken away. VP
17 Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of [the] Lord [is], freedom [is]. VP
18 And we all, having been unveiled in face, reflecting the glory of [the] Lord, are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory, even as from [the] Lord, [the] Spirit. VP