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| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1Are we beginning to recommend ourselves again? Unlike some people, we do not need letters of recommendation to you or from you, do we? |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2You are our letter, written in our hearts and known and read by everyone. |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3You are demonstrating that you are the Messiah's letter, produced by our service, written not with ink but with the Spirit of the living God, not on tablets of stone but on tablets of human hearts. |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4Such is the confidence that we have in God through the Messiah. |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5By ourselves we are not qualified to claim that anything comes from us. Rather, our credentials come from God, |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6who has also qualified us to be ministers of a new covenant, which is not written but spiritual, because the written text brings death, but the Spirit gives life. |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7Now if the ministry of death that was inscribed in letters of stone came with such glory that the people of Israel could not gaze on Moses' face (because the glory was fading away from it), |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8will not the Spirit's ministry have even more glory? |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9For if the ministry of condemnation has glory, then the ministry of justification has an overwhelming glory. |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10In fact, that which once had glory lost its glory, because the other glory surpassed it. |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11For if that which fades away came through glory, how much more does that which is permanent have glory? |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12Therefore, since we have such a hope, we speak very boldly, |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13not like Moses, who kept covering his face with a veil to keep the people of Israel from gazing at the end of what was fading away. |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14However, their minds were hardened, for to this day the same veil is still there when they read the old covenant. Only in union with the Messiah is that veil removed. |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15Yet even to this day, when Moses is read, a veil covers their hearts. |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16But whenever a person turns to the Lord, the veil is removed. |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Lord's Spirit is, there is freedom. |
| 18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18As all of us reflect the glory of the Lord with unveiled faces, we are becoming more like him with ever-increasing glory by the Lord's Spirit. |
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