2 Corinthians 3:5-18

New American Standard Bible

⁵ Not that we are adequate in ourselves so as to consider anything as having come from ourselves, but ^(A)our adequacy is from God, ⁶ who also made us adequate as ^(B)servants of a ^(C)new covenant, not of ^(D)the letter but of the Spirit; for the letter kills, but ^(E)the Spirit gives life.

⁷ But if the ^(F)ministry of death, engraved ^(G)in letters on stones, came ^[a]with glory ^(H)so that the sons of Israel could not look intently at the face of Moses because of the glory of his face, fading as it was, ⁸ how will the ministry of the Spirit fail to be even more with glory? ⁹ For if ^(I)the ministry of condemnation has glory, much more does the ^(J)ministry of righteousness excel in glory. ¹⁰ For indeed what had glory in this case has no glory, because of the glory that surpasses it. ¹¹ For if that which fades away was ^[b]with glory, much more that which remains is in glory.

^12 (K)Therefore, having such a hope, ^(L)we use great boldness in our speech, ¹³ and we are not like Moses, ^(M)who used to put a veil over his face so that the sons of Israel would not stare at the end of what was fading away. ¹⁴ But their minds were ^(N)hardened; for until this very day at the ^(O)reading of ^(P)the old covenant the same veil ^[c]remains unlifted, because it is removed in Christ. ¹⁵ But to this day whenever Moses is read, a veil lies over their hearts; ^16 (Q)but whenever someone turns to the Lord, the veil is taken away. ¹⁷ Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where ^(R)the Spirit of the Lord is, ^(S)there is freedom. ¹⁸ But we all, with unveiled faces, ^(T)looking as in a mirror at the ^(U)glory of the Lord, are being ^(V)transformed into the same image from glory to glory, just as from ^(W)the Lord, the Spirit.