2 Corinthians 3:6-18 (CJB) | TrulyRandomVerse

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He has even made us competent to be workers serving a New Covenant, the essence of which is not a written text but the Spirit. For the written text brings death, but the Spirit gives life.

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Now if that which worked death, by means of a written text engraved on stone tablets, came with glory — such glory that the people of Isra’el could not stand to look at Moshe’s face because of its brightness, even though that brightness was already fading away —

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won’t the working of the Spirit be accompanied by even greater glory?

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For if there was glory in what worked to declare people guilty, how much more must the glory abound in what works to declare people innocent!

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In fact, by comparison with this greater glory, what was made glorious before has no glory now.

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For if there was glory in what faded away, how much more glory must there be in what lasts.

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Therefore, with a hope like this, we are very open —

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unlike Moshe, who put a veil over his face, so that the people of Isra’el would not see the fading brightness come to an end.

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What is more, their minds were made stonelike; for to this day the same veil remains over them when they read the Old Covenant; it has not been unveiled, because only by the Messiah is the veil taken away.

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Yes, till today, whenever Moshe is read, a veil lies over their heart.

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“But,” says the Torah, “whenever someone turns to Adonai, the veil is taken away.”

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Now, “Adonai” in this text means the Spirit. And where the Spirit of Adonai is, there is freedom.

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So all of us, with faces unveiled, see as in a mirror the glory of the Lord; and we are being changed into his very image, from one degree of glory to the next, by Adonai the Spirit.

2 Corinthians 3:6-18

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