2 Corinthians 3:7-18
The Glory of the New Covenant
7 But if the ministration of death, written [and] engraven 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 [glory] was to be done away:
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8 How shall not the ministration of the spirit be rather glorious?
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9 For if the ministration of condemnation [be] glory, much more doth the ministration of righteousness exceed in glory.
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10 For even that which was made glorious had no glory in this respect, by reason of the glory that excelleth.
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11 For if that which is done away [was] glorious, much more that which remaineth [is] glorious.
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12 Seeing then that we have such hope, we use great plainness of speech:
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13 And not as Moses, [which] put a vail over his face, that the children of Israel could not stedfastly look to the end of that which is abolished:
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14 But their minds were blinded: for until this day remaineth the same vail untaken away in the reading of the old testament; which [vail] is done away in Christ.
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15 But even unto this day, when Moses is read, the vail is upon their heart.
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16 Nevertheless when it shall turn to the Lord, the vail shall be taken away.
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17 Now the Lord is that Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord [is], there [is] liberty.
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18 But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, [even] as by the Spirit of the Lord.
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