| 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. |
| 3:4 | 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. |
| 3:6 | 他叫我們能承當這新約的執事．不是憑著字句、乃是憑著精意．因為那字句是叫人死、精意是叫人活。〔精意或作聖靈〕 |
| 3:6 | 他叫我们能承当这新约的执事。不是凭着字句，乃是凭着精意。因为那字句是叫人死，精意是叫人活。（精意或作圣灵）。 |
| 2co:2:16 | To the one we are the savour of death unto death; and to the other the savour of life unto life. And who is sufficient for these things? |
| jer:31:31 | Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah: |
| luk:22:20 | Likewise also the cup after supper, saying, This cup is the new testament in my blood, which is shed for you. |
| 1co:11:25 | After the same manner also he took the cup, when he had supped, saying, This cup is the new testament in my blood: this do ye, as oft as ye drink it, in remembrance of me. |
| heb:8:8 | For finding fault with them, he saith, Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah: |
| heb:8:13 | In that he saith, A new covenant, he hath made the first old. Now that which decayeth and waxeth old is ready to vanish away. |
| eph:3:7 | Whereof I was made a minister, according to the gift of the grace of God given unto me by the effectual working of his power. |
| col:1:23 | If ye continue in the faith grounded and settled, and be not moved away from the hope of the gospel, which ye have heard, and which was preached to every creature which is under heaven; whereof I Paul am made a minister; |
| col:1:25 | Whereof I am made a minister, according to the dispensation of God which is given to me for you, to fulfil the word of God; |
| rom:2:29 | But he is a Jew, which is one inwardly; and circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit, and not in the letter; whose praise is not of men, but of God. |
| jhn:6:63 | It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life. |
| 1co:15:45 | And so it is written, The first man Adam was made a living soul; the last Adam was made a quickening spirit. |
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| 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. |
