New American Standard Bible 2020

2 Corinthians 3:12-18

12 1Therefore, having such a hope, 2we use great boldness in our speech,

13and we are not like Moses, 3who used to put a veil over his face so that the sons of Israel would not stare at the end of what was fading away.

14But their minds were 4hardened; for until this very day at the 5reading of 6the old covenant the same veil 7remains unlifted, because it is removed in Christ.

15But to this day whenever Moses is read, a veil lies over their hearts;

16 8but whenever someone turns to the Lord, the veil is taken away.

17Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where 9the Spirit of the Lord is, 10there is freedom.

18But we all, with unveiled faces, 11looking as in a mirror at the 12glory of the Lord, are being 13transformed into the same image from glory to glory, just as from 14the Lord, the Spirit.

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Notes

1. 2 Corinthians 3:12 2 Cor 7:4 ↩
2. 2 Corinthians 3:12 Acts 4:13, 29; 2 Cor 7:4; Eph 6:19; 1 Thess 2:2 ↩
3. 2 Corinthians 3:13 Ex 34:33-35; 2 Cor 3:7 ↩
4. 2 Corinthians 3:14 Rom 11:7; 2 Cor 4:4 ↩
5. 2 Corinthians 3:14 Acts 13:15 ↩
6. 2 Corinthians 3:14 2 Cor 3:6 ↩
7. 2 Corinthians 3:14 Or remains, it not being revealed that it is done away in Christ ↩
8. 2 Corinthians 3:16 Ex 34:34; Rom 11:23 ↩
9. 2 Corinthians 3:17 Is 61:1f; Gal 4:6 ↩
10. 2 Corinthians 3:17 John 8:32; Gal 5:1, 13 ↩
11. 2 Corinthians 3:18 1 Cor 13:12 ↩
12. 2 Corinthians 3:18 John 17:22, 24; 2 Cor 4:4, 6 ↩
13. 2 Corinthians 3:18 Rom 8:29 ↩
14. 2 Corinthians 3:18 2 Cor 3:17 ↩

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