³ 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.

⁸ how shall not rather the ministration of the spirit be with glory?

^9 [a]For if the ministration of condemnation hath glory, much rather doth the ministration of righteousness exceed in glory.

¹⁸ But we all, with unveiled face ^[a]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.

^17 [a]Sanctify them in the truth: thy word is truth.