| Berean Study Bible | New American Standard Bible 1995 |
| 1Are we beginning to commend ourselves again? Or do we need, like some people, letters of recommendation to you or from you? | 1Are we beginning to commend ourselves again? Or do we need, as some, letters of commendation to you or from you? |
| 2You yourselves are our letter, inscribed on our hearts, known and read by everyone. | 2You are our letter, written in our hearts, known and read by all men; |
| 3It is clear that you are a letter from Christ, the result of our ministry, written not with ink but with the Spirit of the living God, not on tablets of stone but on tablets of human hearts. | 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. |
| 4Such confidence before God is ours through Christ. | 4Such confidence we have through Christ toward God. |
| 5Not that we are competent in ourselves to claim that anything comes from us, but our competence comes from God. | 5Not that we are adequate in ourselves to consider anything as coming from ourselves, but our adequacy is from God, |
| 6And He has qualified us as ministers of a new covenant, not of the letter but of the Spirit; for the letter kills, but the Spirit gives 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. |
| 7Now if the ministry of death, which was engraved in letters on stone, came with such glory that the Israelites could not gaze at the face of Moses because of its fleeting glory, | 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, |
| 8will not the ministry of the Spirit be even more glorious? | 8how will the ministry of the Spirit fail to be even more with glory? |
| 9For if the ministry of condemnation was glorious, how much more glorious is the ministry of righteousness! | 9For if the ministry of condemnation has glory, much more does the ministry of righteousness abound in glory. |
| 10Indeed, what was once glorious has no glory now in comparison to the glory that surpasses it. | 10For indeed what had glory, in this case has no glory because of the glory that surpasses it. |
| 11For if what was fading away came with glory, how much greater is the glory of that which endures! | 11For if that which fades away was with glory, much more that which remains is in glory. |
| 12Therefore, since we have such a hope, we are very bold. | 12Therefore having such a hope, we use great boldness in our speech, |
| 13We are not like Moses, who would put a veil over his face to keep the Israelites from gazing at the end of what was fading away. | 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 closed. For to this day the same veil remains at the reading of the old covenant. It has not been lifted, because only in Christ can it be removed. | 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. |
| 15And even to this day when Moses is read, a veil covers their hearts. | 15But to this day whenever Moses is read, a veil lies over their heart; |
| 16But whenever anyone turns to the Lord, the veil is taken away. | 16but whenever a person turns to the Lord, the veil is taken away. |
| 17Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom. | 17Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty. |
| 18And we, who with unveiled faces all reflect the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into His image with intensifying glory, which comes from the Lord, who is the Spirit. | 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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