Who also hath made us able ministers of the new testament; not of the letter, but of the spirit: for the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life. (3:6) 68 com1

But if the ministration of death, written [and] engraven in stones, was glorious, so that the children of Israel could not stedfastly behold the face of Moses for the glory of his countenance; which [glory] was to be done away: (3:7)

How shall not the ministration of the spirit be rather glorious? (3:8)

For if the ministration of condemnation [be] glory, much more doth the ministration of righteousness exceed in glory (3:9)

For even that which was made glorious had no glory in this respect, by reason of the glory that excelleth (3:10)

For if that which is done away [was] glorious, much more that which remaineth [is] glorious (3:11)

Seeing then that we have such hope, we use great plainness of speech: (3:12)

And not as Moses, [which] put a veil over his face, that the children of Israel could not stedfastly look to the end of that which is abolished: (3:13)

But their minds were blinded: for until this day remaineth the same veil untaken away in the reading of the old testament; which [veil] is done away in Christ (3:14)

But even unto this day, when Moses is read, the veil is upon their heart (3:15)

Nevertheless when it shall turn to the Lord, the veil shall be taken away (3:16)

Now the Lord is that Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord [is], there [is] liberty (3:17)

But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, [even] as by the Spirit of the Lord (3:18)

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