¹⁷ Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom. ¹⁸ We all, with unveiled faces, are looking as in a mirror at^[a](A) the glory of the Lord^(B) and are being transformed^(C) into the same image^(D) from glory to glory; this is from the Lord who is the Spirit.^[b]

¹⁷ For our momentary light affliction^(A) is producing for us an absolutely incomparable eternal weight of glory.^{(B) 18} So we do not focus on what is seen,^(C) but on what is unseen. For what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal.