2 Corinthians 3:7-17

7Now if the ministry that brought death, chiseled in letters on stones, came with glory, so that the Israelites were not able to gaze steadily at Moses’s face because of its glory, which was set aside,

8how will the ministry of the Spirit not be more glorious?

9For if the ministry that brought condemnation had glory, the ministry that brings righteousness overflows with even more glory.

10In fact, what had been glorious is not glorious now by comparison because of the glory that surpasses it.

11For if what was set aside was glorious, what endures will be even more glorious.

12Since, then, we have such a hope, we act with great boldness.

13We are not like Moses, who used to put a veil over his face to prevent the Israelites from gazing steadily until the end of the glory of what was being set aside,

14but their minds were hardened. For to this day, at the reading of the old covenant, the same veil remains; it is not lifted, because it is set aside only in Christ.

15Yet still today, whenever Moses is read, a veil lies over their hearts,

16but whenever a person turns to the Lord, the veil is removed.

17Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom.