1 ¿Comenzamos de nuevo á alabarnos á nosotros mismos? ¿tenemos necesidad, como algunos, de cartas de recomendación para vosotros, ó de vosotros? 2 Nuestra carta sois vosotros, escrita en nuestros corazones, que es reconocida y leida de todos los hombres. 3 Siendo manifiesto, que vosotros sois carta de Christo, hecha por nuestro ministerio, y escrita no con tinta, sino con Espíritu de Dios vivo; no en tablas de piedra, sino en tablas de carne del corazón. 4 Y tenemos tal confianza en Dios por Christo: 5 No que seamos suficientes de nosotros mismos para pensar algo, como de nosotros; mas nuestra suficiencia viene de Dios: 6 El que también nos ha hecho Ministros idóneos del nuevo testamento; no por la letra, mas por el espíritu; porque la letra mata y el espíritu vivifica. 7 Y si el ministro de muerte grabado con letras sobre piedras, fué en gloria, de manera que los hijos de Israél no podian mirar á la cara de Moysés por la gloria de su semblante, la que había de perecer; 8 ¿Cómo no será mucho mas en gloria el ministerio del Espíritu? 9 Porque si el ministerio de condenación fué gloria, mucho mas abunda en gloria el ministerio de la justicia. 10 Porque lo que resplandeció en esta parte, no fué glorioso á vista de la sublime gloria. 11 Porque si lo que perece, es por gloria, mucho mas en gloria, lo que permanece. 12 Así pues teniendo tal esperanza, hablamos con mucha confianza; 13 Y no como Moysés, que ponia un velo sobre su rostro, para que los Israelitas no fixasen la vista en su cara, cuya gloria habia de perecer. 14 For lo qual los sentidos de ellos quedáron embotados; pues hasta el día de hoy permanece en la leccion del antiguo testamento el mismo velo sin alzarse, (porque no se quita sino por Christo); 15 Y aún hasta el día de hoy, quando leen á Moysés, el velo está puesto sobre el corazón de ellos. 16 Mas quando se convirtiere al Señor, será quitado el velo. 17 Porque el Señor es Espíritu: y en donde está el Espíritu del Señor, allí hay libertad. 18 Asi todos nosotros registrando á cara descubierta, la gloria del Señor, somos transformados de claridad en claridad en la mismna imágen, como por el Espíritu del Señor.
2 Corinthians · Scío de San Miguel New Testament (1797)
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- 1 2 Corinthians 10:12; 2 Corinthians 12:11; 2 Corinthians 5:12; Acts 18:27; 1 Corinthians 16:3
- 2 1 Corinthians 9:1–2; 1 Thessalonians 1:8; Romans 1:8; Philippians 1:7; 2 Corinthians 7:3
- 3 Ezekiel 11:19; Jeremiah 31:33; Hebrews 8:10; Hebrews 10:16; Psalm 40:8
- 4 Philippians 1:6; Ephesians 3:12; 1 Thessalonians 1:8; Exodus 18:19; 2 Corinthians 2:14
- 5 2 Corinthians 12:9; Philippians 4:13; 1 Corinthians 15:10; Philippians 2:13; John 15:5
- 6 John 6:63; Romans 7:6; Romans 8:2; Jeremiah 31:31; Hebrews 8:6–10
- 7 2 Corinthians 3:9–11; Romans 10:4; Exodus 31:18; 1 Corinthians 13:10; 2 Corinthians 3:3
- 8 1 Corinthians 3:16; Ephesians 2:18; 1 Peter 1:2; 2 Thessalonians 2:13; Joel 2:28–29
- 9 Hebrews 12:18–21; Romans 3:21–22; 2 Corinthians 5:21; 2 Corinthians 3:6–7; 1 Corinthians 15:41
- 10 2 Peter 1:17; Haggai 2:7–9; Revelation 22:5; Job 25:5; Acts 26:13
- 11 Romans 5:20–21; Hebrews 8:13; Hebrews 7:21–25; 2 Corinthians 4:1; 2 Corinthians 3:6–7
- 12 2 Corinthians 7:4; Ephesians 6:19–20; Philippians 1:20; Acts 4:13; John 16:29
- 13 Exodus 34:33–35; Ephesians 2:14–15; Colossians 2:17; Hebrews 10:1–9; 2 Corinthians 3:7
- 14 2 Corinthians 4:3–4; Acts 26:18; Romans 11:25; Ephesians 1:17–20; Romans 11:7–10
- 15 Acts 13:27–29
- 16 Exodus 34:34; Isaiah 25:7; Isaiah 29:18; John 6:45–46; Romans 11:23
- 17 Romans 8:2; John 8:32; Galatians 5:13; Galatians 4:6; Galatians 5:1
- 18 2 Corinthians 4:6; Ephesians 4:22–24; Romans 12:2; 2 Corinthians 4:4; 1 Corinthians 13:12
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He anticipates and puts himself an objection which others would have urged against him, Thou vauntest thyself;' and this though he had before employed so strong a corrective in the expressions, "Who is sufficient for these things?" and, "of sincerity...speak we." (2 Cor. ii. 16, 17.) Howbeit he is not satisfied with these. For such is his character.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 12 (1889)
… hold on the flesh, he says in the same Epistle, "That ye are the epistle of Christ, ministered by us, inscribed not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God, not in tables of stone, but in the fleshly tables of the heart." If, therefore, in the present time, fleshly hearts are made partakers of the Spirit, what …
… before, when I censured Thy holy ones for so thinking, whereas in truth they thought not so; and with delight I heard Ambrose, in his sermons to the people, oftentimes most diligently recommend this text as a rule,--"The letter killeth, but the Spirit giveth life;" whilst, drawing aside the mystic veil, he spiritually laid open that which, accepted according to …
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 1 (1886)
… their mind, and in their heart I will write them," and, "they shall be all taught of God." And Paul too, pointing out the same superiority, said, that they had received a law "not in tables of stone, but in fleshy tables of the heart." But since in process of time they made shipwreck, some with regard to doctrines, others …
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 10 (1888)
For until this day...when Moses is read, a vail lieth upon their heart.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 2, vol. 7 (1894)