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?
2
Ye
are
our
epistle
written
in
our
hearts,
known
and
read
of
all
men:
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.
4
And
such
trust
have
we
through
Christ
to
God–ward:
5
Not
that
we
are
sufficient
of
ourselves
to
think
any
thing
as
of
ourselves;
but
our
sufficiency
[is]
of
God;
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.
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:
8
How
shall
not
the
ministration
of
the
spirit
be
rather
glorious?
9
For
if
the
ministration
of
condemnation
[be]
glory,
much
more
doth
the
ministration
of
righteousness
exceed
in
glory.
10
For
even
that
which
was
made
glorious
had
no
glory
in
this
respect,
by
reason
of
the
glory
that
excelleth.
11
For
if
that
which
is
done
away
[was]
glorious,
much
more
that
which
remaineth
[is]
glorious.
12
Seeing
then
that
we
have
such
hope,
we
use
great
plainness
of
speech:
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:
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.
15
But
even
unto
this
day,
when
Moses
is
read,
the
vail
is
upon
their
heart.
16
Nevertheless
when
it
shall
turn
to
the
Lord,
the
vail
shall
be
taken
away.
17
Now
the
Lord
is
that
Spirit:
and
where
the
Spirit
of
the
Lord
[is],
there
[is]
liberty.
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.