B.
Its function and competency
3:1-6
2 Cor. 3
:1
3:1
Are we beginning again to
acommend ourselves? Or do we need, as some do,
bletters of commendation to you or from you?
2 Cor. 3
:2
3:2
You are
1our aletter, inscribed in
2our hearts, known and read by all men,
2 Cor. 3
:3
3:3
Since you are being manifested that you are a
1letter of Christ
2ministered by us, inscribed not with ink but
3with the
aSpirit of the
bliving God; not in
ctablets of stone but in tablets of
4dhearts of flesh.
2 Cor. 3
:4
3:4
And such
aconfidence we have through Christ toward God,
2 Cor. 3
:5
3:5
Not that we are
1asufficient of ourselves to
2account anything as from ourselves; but our
3sufficiency is
bfrom God,
2 Cor. 3
:6
3:6
Who has also made us
asufficient as
bministers of a
cnew covenant,
ministers not of the
1letter but of the
2dSpirit; for the
3letter kills, but the
4eSpirit gives life.
C.
Its glory and superiority
3:7-11
2 Cor. 3
:7
3:7
Moreover if the
1ministry of
adeath, engraved in
bstone in letters, came about in
2cglory, so that the sons of Israel were not able to gaze at the face of Moses because of the glory of his face,
a glory which was being done away with,
2 Cor. 3
:8
3:8
How shall the
1aministry of the
bSpirit not be more in
2glory?
2 Cor. 3
:9
3:9
For if there is glory with the ministry of
1acondemnation, much more the ministry of
2brighteousness 3abounds with glory.
2 Cor. 3
:10
3:10
For also that which has been
1glorified 2in this respect
3has not been glorified on account of the surpassing glory.
2 Cor. 3
:11
3:11
For if that which was
1being done away with was
2through aglory, much more that which remains is in
bglory.
III.
The ministers of the new covenant
3:12—7:16
A.
Constituted by and with the Lord as the life-giving and transforming Spirit
3:12-18
2 Cor. 3
:12
3:12
Therefore since we have such
1hope, we use much
2aboldness,
2 Cor. 3
:13
3:13
And are not like Moses,
who put a
aveil on his face so that the sons of Israel would not gaze
1at the end of that which was being done away with.
2 Cor. 3
:14
3:14
But their
1athoughts were
bhardened; for until the present day the same veil remains at the
creading of the old covenant,
2it not being unveiled
to them that
the veil is being done away with in Christ.
2 Cor. 3
:15
3:15
Indeed unto this day, whenever
1Moses is read, a veil lies on their heart;
2 Cor. 3
:16
3:16
But whenever
1their heart turns to the Lord, the
aveil is taken away.
2 Cor. 3
:17
3:17
1And the
2Lord is the
3aSpirit; and where the
4bSpirit of the Lord is, there is
5cfreedom.
2 Cor. 3
:18
3:18
1But 2we all with
3unveiled face,
4abeholding and reflecting like a
5bmirror the
6cglory of the Lord, are
7being dtransformed into the
8same eimage 9from glory to
fglory, even as
10from the
11Lord Spirit.
