32 Corinthians 3

CHAP. III. / 1 Lest their false teachers should charge him with vaineglory, hee sheweth the faith and graces of the Corinthians, to bee a sufficient commendation of his ministerie. 6 Whereupon entring

1Doe wee begin againe to commend our selues? or need wee, as some others, Epistles of commendation to you, or letters of commendation from you?Select 2 Corinthians 3:1

2Ye are our Epistle written in our hearts, knowen and read of all men.Select 2 Corinthians 3:2

3Forasmuch as yee are manifestly declared to be the Epistle of Christ ministered by vs, written not with ink, but with with the Spirit of the liuing God, not in tables of stone, but in fleshy tables of the heart.Select 2 Corinthians 3:3

4And such trust haue wee through Christ to Godward:Select 2 Corinthians 3:4

5Not that we are sufficient of our selues to thinke any thing as of our selues: but our sufficiencie is of God:Select 2 Corinthians 3:5

6Who also hath made vs able ministers of the New Testament, not of the letter, but of the spirit: for the letter killeth, but the spirit giueth life.Select 2 Corinthians 3:6

7But if the ministration of death written, and ingrauen 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 glorie was to be done away:Select 2 Corinthians 3:7

8How shall not the ministration of the spirit, be rather glorious?Select 2 Corinthians 3:8

9For if the ministration of condemnation bee glory, much more doth the ministration of righteousnesse exceed in glorie.Select 2 Corinthians 3:9

10For euen that which was made glorious, had no glorie in this respect by reason of the glorie that excelleth.Select 2 Corinthians 3:10

11For if that which is done away, was glorious, much more that which remaineth is glorious.Select 2 Corinthians 3:11

12Seeing then that we haue such hope, we vse great plainnesse of speech.Select 2 Corinthians 3:12

13And not as Moses, which put a vaile ouer his face, that the children of Israel could not stedfastly looke to the end of that which is abolished;Select 2 Corinthians 3:13

14But their mindes were blinded: for vntil this day remaineth the same vaile vntaken away, in the reading of the old testament: which vaile is done away in Christ.Select 2 Corinthians 3:14

15But euen vnto this day, when Moses is read, the vaile is vpon their heart.Select 2 Corinthians 3:15

16Neuertheless when it shall turne to the Lord, the vaile shall be taken away.Select 2 Corinthians 3:16

17Now the Lord is that spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is libertie.Select 2 Corinthians 3:17

18But we all, with open face beholding as in a glasse the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image, from glorie to glorie, euen as by the Spirit of the Lord.Select 2 Corinthians 3:18