| 3:1 | Do we begin again to commend ourselves? or need we, as some others, epistles of commendation to you, or letters of commendation from you? |
| 3:2 | Ye are our epistle written in our hearts, known and read of all men: |
| 3:3 | Forasmuch as ye are manifestly declared to be the 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 fleshy tables of the heart. |
| 3:3 | 你們明顯是基督的信、藉著我們修成的．不是用墨寫的、乃是用永生 神的靈寫的．不是寫在石版上、乃是寫在心版上。 |
| 3:3 | 你们明显是基督的信，藉着我们修成的。不是用墨写的，乃是用永生神的灵写的。不是写在石版上，乃是写在心版上。 |
| mat:16:16 | And Simon Peter answered and said, Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God. |
| exo:24:12 | And the LORD said unto Moses, Come up to me into the mount, and be there: and I will give thee tables of stone, and a law, and commandments which I have written; that thou mayest teach them. |
| deu:4:13 | And he declared unto you his covenant, which he commanded you to perform, even ten commandments; and he wrote them upon two tables of stone. |
| pro:3:3 | Let not mercy and truth forsake thee: bind them about thy neck; write them upon the table of thine heart: |
| pro:7:3 | Bind them upon thy fingers, write them upon the table of thine heart. |
| jer:17:1 | The sin of Judah is written with a pen of iron, and with the point of a diamond: it is graven upon the table of their heart, and upon the horns of your altars; |
| jer:31:33 | But this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel; After those days, saith the LORD, I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and will be their God, and they shall be my people. |
| heb:8:10 | For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord; I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts: and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people: |
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| 3:4 | And such trust have we through Christ to God-ward: |
| 3:5 | Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think any thing as of ourselves; but our sufficiency is of God; |
| 3:6 | 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. |
| 3:7 | 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: |
| 3:8 | How shall not the ministration of the spirit be rather glorious? |
| 3:9 | For if the ministration of condemnation be glory, much more doth the ministration of righteousness exceed in glory. |
| 3:10 | For even that which was made glorious had no glory in this respect, by reason of the glory that excelleth. |
| 3:11 | For if that which is done away was glorious, much more that which remaineth is glorious. |
| 3:12 | Seeing then that we have such hope, we use great plainness of speech: |
| 3:13 | And not as Moses, which put a vail over his face, that the children of Israel could not stedfastly look to the end of that which is abolished: |
| 3:14 | But their minds were blinded: for until this day remaineth the same vail untaken away in the reading of the old testament; which vail is done away in Christ. |
| 3:15 | But even unto this day, when Moses is read, the vail is upon their heart. |
| 3:16 | Nevertheless when it shall turn to the Lord, the vail shall be taken away. |
| 3:17 | Now the Lord is that Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty. |
| 3:18 | 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. |
