New Testament · Letters

2 Corinthians chapter 3

Are we starting to promote ourselves again? We don’t need to you or from you, do we — like some people apparently do?You yourselves are our — written on our , seen and read by everyone.It’s obvious that you are a letter from , produced through our — written not with ink but with , not on but on the tablets of human hearts.This is the kind of we have before God through The One.Not that we’re on our own to claim anything comes from us — our competence comes from God.He’s the one who made us competent to be servants of a new — not based on a but on . Because the written code , but the Breath .Now if the — carved in letters on stone — came with such that the Israelites couldn’t even look at Moses’ face because it was shining so brightly (even though that radiance was already ),how much more radiant will be?If the system that brought had radiance, the system that overflows with so much more!In fact, what was once radiant has lost its radiance entirely compared to the of the new.Because if what was came with radiance, has so much more radiance!So since we have this kind of , we speak with —not like Moses, who put a over his face so the Israelites wouldn’t see the radiance .But their minds were . To this day, the same veil remains when the is read — it hasn’t been lifted, because it’s only removed through The One.Even today, whenever , a veil lies over their hearts.But whenever someone , the veil is taken away.Now “the Lord” in that passage refers to — and wherever the Breath of the Lord is, there is .And all of us, with the Lord’s radiance, are being into the same — . And this comes from the Lord, who is the Breath.