dynamicbible/bibles/asv/47-3.json

{"ch":3,"vss":[{"v":1,"w":[{"t":"Are we beginning again to commend ourselves? or need we, as do some, epistles of commendation to you or from you?"}]},{"v":2,"w":[{"t":"Ye are our epistle, written in our hearts, known and read of all men;"}]},{"v":3,"w":[{"t":"being made manifest that ye are an 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 tables [that are] hearts of flesh."}]},{"v":4,"w":[{"t":"And such confidence have we through Christ to God-ward:"}]},{"v":5,"w":[{"t":"not that we are sufficient of ourselves, to account anything as from ourselves; but our sufficiency is from God;"}]},{"v":6,"w":[{"t":"who also made us sufficient as ministers of a new covenant; not of the letter, but of the spirit: for the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life."}]},{"v":7,"w":[{"t":"But if the ministration of death, written, [and] engraven on stones, came with glory, so that the children of Israel could not look stedfastly upon the face of Moses for the glory of his face; which [glory] was passing away:"}]},{"v":8,"w":[{"t":"how shall not rather the ministration of the spirit be with glory?"}]},{"v":9,"w":[{"t":"For if the ministration of condemnation hath glory, much rather doth the ministration of righteousness exceed in glory."}]},{"v":10,"w":[{"t":"For verily that which hath been made glorious hath not been made glorious in this respect, by reason of the glory that surpasseth."}]},{"v":11,"w":[{"t":"For if that which passeth away [was] with glory, much more that which remaineth [is] in glory."}]},{"v":12,"w":[{"t":"Having therefore such a hope, we use great boldness of speech,"}]},{"v":13,"w":[{"t":"and [are] not as Moses, [who] put a veil upon his face, that the children of Israel should not look stedfastly on the end of that which was passing away:"}]},{"v":14,"w":[{"t":"but their minds were hardened: for until this very day at the reading of the old covenant the same veil remaineth, it not being revealed [to them] that it is done away in Christ."}]},{"v":15,"w":[{"t":"But unto this day, whensoever Moses is read, a veil lieth upon their heart."}]},{"v":16,"w":[{"t":"But whensoever it shall turn to the Lord, the veil is taken away."}]},{"v":17,"w":[{"t":"Now the Lord is the Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord is, [there] is liberty."}]},{"v":18,"w":[{"t":"But we all, with unveiled face beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are transformed into the same image from glory to glory, even as from the Lord the Spirit."}]}]}