1 Do we begin again to recommend ourselves, except we need, as some, letters of recommendation unto you, or from you? 2 our letter ye are, having been written in our hearts, known and read by all men, 3 manifested that ye are a letter of Christ ministered by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God, not in the tablets of stone, but in fleshy tablets of the heart, 4 and such trust we have through the Christ toward God, 5 not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think anything, as of ourselves, but our sufficiency [is] of God, 6 who also made us sufficient [to be] ministrants of a new covenant, not of letter, but of spirit; for the letter doth kill, and the spirit doth make alive. 7 and if the ministration of the death, in letters, engraved in stones, came in glory, so that the sons of Israel were not able to look stedfastly to the face of Moses, because of the glory of his face — which was being made useless, 8 how shall the ministration of the Spirit not be more in glory? 9 for if the ministration of the condemnation [is] glory, much more doth the ministration of the righteousness abound in glory; 10 for also even that which hath been glorious, hath not been glorious — in this respect, because of the superior glory; 11 for if that which is being made useless [is] through glory, much more that which is remaining [is] in glory. 12 Having, then, such hope, we use much freedom of speech, 13 and [are] not as Moses, who was putting a vail upon his own face, for the sons of Israel not stedfastly to look to the end of that which is being made useless, 14 but their minds were hardened, for unto this day the same vail at the reading of the Old Covenant doth remain unwithdrawn — which in Christ is being made useless — 15 but till to-day, when Moses is read, a vail upon their heart doth lie, 16 and whenever they may turn unto the Lord, the vail is taken away. 17 And the Lord is the Spirit; and where the Spirit of the Lord [is], there [is] liberty; 18 and we all, with unvailed face, the glory of the Lord beholding in a mirror, to the same image are being transformed, from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord.
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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)