2 Corinthians 3:4-18

4Such is the 1confidence we have toward God through Christ. 5Not that we are adequate in ourselves so as to consider anything as having come from ourselves, but 2our adequacy is from God, 6who also made us adequate as 3servants of a 4new covenant, not of 5the letter but of the Spirit; for the letter kills, but 6the Spirit gives life.

7But if the 7ministry of death, engraved 8in letters on stones, came 9with glory 10so that the sons of Israel could not look intently at the face of Moses because of the glory of his face, fading as it was, 8how will the ministry of the Spirit fail to be even more with glory? 9For if 11the ministry of condemnation has glory, much more does the 12ministry of righteousness excel in glory. 10For indeed what had glory in this case has no glory, because of the glory that surpasses it. 11For if that which fades away was 13with glory, much more that which remains is in glory.

1214Therefore, having such a hope, 15we use great boldness in our speech, 13and we are not like Moses, 16who 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 17hardened; for until this very day at the 18reading of 19the old covenant the same veil 20remains unlifted, because it is removed in Christ. 15But to this day whenever Moses is read, a veil lies over their hearts; 1621but whenever someone turns to the Lord, the veil is taken away. 17Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where 22the Spirit of the Lord is, 23there is freedom. 18But we all, with unveiled faces, 24looking as in a mirror at the 25glory of the Lord, are being 26transformed into the same image from glory to glory, just as from 27the Lord, the Spirit.