1 Are we beginning again to commend ourselves? or need we, as do some, epistles of commendation to you or from you? 2 Ye are our epistle, written in our hearts, known and read of all men; 3 being made manifest that ye are an epistle of Christ, ministered by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; not in tables of stone, but in tables [that are] hearts of flesh. 4 And such confidence have we through Christ to God-ward: 5 not that we are sufficient of ourselves, to account anything as from ourselves; but our sufficiency is from God; 6 who also made us sufficient as ministers of a new covenant; not of the letter, but of the spirit: for the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life. 7 But if the ministration of death, written, [and] engraven on stones, came with glory, so that the children of Israel could not look stedfastly upon the face of Moses for the glory of his face; which [glory] was passing away: 8 how shall not rather the ministration of the spirit be with glory? 9 For if the ministration of condemnation hath glory, much rather doth the ministration of righteousness exceed in glory. 10 For verily that which hath been made glorious hath not been made glorious in this respect, by reason of the glory that surpasseth. 11 For if that which passeth away [was] with glory, much more that which remaineth [is] in glory. 12 Having therefore such a hope, we use great boldness of speech, 13 and [are] not as Moses, [who] put a veil upon his face, that the children of Israel should not look stedfastly on the end of that which was passing away: 14 but their minds were hardened: for until this very day at the reading of the old covenant the same veil remaineth, it not being revealed [to them] that it is done away in Christ. 15 But unto this day, whensoever Moses is read, a veil lieth upon their heart. 16 But whensoever it shall turn to the Lord, the veil is taken away. 17 Now the Lord is the Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord is, [there] is liberty. 18 But we all, with unveiled face beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are transformed into the same image from glory to glory, even as from the Lord the Spirit.
2 Corintios · Versión Estándar Americana (1901)
2 Corintios 3 Versión Estándar Americana (1901)
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- 1 2 Corintios 10:12; 2 Corintios 12:11; 2 Corintios 5:12; Hechos 18:27; 1 Corintios 16:3
- 2 1 Corintios 9:1–2; 1 Tesalonicenses 1:8; Romanos 1:8; Filipenses 1:7; 2 Corintios 7:3
- 3 Ezequiel 11:19; Jeremías 31:33; Hebreos 8:10; Hebreos 10:16; Salmo 40:8
- 4 Filipenses 1:6; Efesios 3:12; 1 Tesalonicenses 1:8; Éxodo 18:19; 2 Corintios 2:14
- 5 2 Corintios 12:9; Filipenses 4:13; 1 Corintios 15:10; Filipenses 2:13; Juan 15:5
- 6 Juan 6:63; Romanos 7:6; Romanos 8:2; Jeremías 31:31; Hebreos 8:6–10
- 7 2 Corintios 3:9–11; Romanos 10:4; Éxodo 31:18; 1 Corintios 13:10; 2 Corintios 3:3
- 8 1 Corintios 3:16; Efesios 2:18; 1 Pedro 1:2; 2 Tesalonicenses 2:13; Joel 2:28–29
- 9 Hebreos 12:18–21; Romanos 3:21–22; 2 Corintios 5:21; 2 Corintios 3:6–7; 1 Corintios 15:41
- 10 2 Pedro 1:17; Hageo 2:7–9; Apocalipsis 22:5; Job 25:5; Hechos 26:13
- 11 Romanos 5:20–21; Hebreos 8:13; Hebreos 7:21–25; 2 Corintios 4:1; 2 Corintios 3:6–7
- 12 2 Corintios 7:4; Efesios 6:19–20; Filipenses 1:20; Hechos 4:13; Juan 16:29
- 13 Éxodo 34:33–35; Efesios 2:14–15; Colosenses 2:17; Hebreos 10:1–9; 2 Corintios 3:7
- 14 2 Corintios 4:3–4; Hechos 26:18; Romanos 11:25; Efesios 1:17–20; Romanos 11:7–10
- 15 Hechos 13:27–29
- 16 Éxodo 34:34; Isaías 25:7; Isaías 29:18; Juan 6:45–46; Romanos 11:23
- 17 Romanos 8:2; Juan 8:32; Gálatas 5:13; Gálatas 4:6; Gálatas 5:1
- 18 2 Corintios 4:6; Efesios 4:22–24; Romanos 12:2; 2 Corintios 4:4; 1 Corintios 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.
Leer en contexto · 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 …
Leer en contexto · 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 …
Leer en contexto · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 10 (1888)
For until this day...when Moses is read, a vail lieth upon their heart.
Leer en contexto · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 2, vol. 7 (1894)