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2 Corinthians 3

You Yourselves Are Proof To Everyone That God Is Working Through Us

3 Are we^[a] beginning to commend ourselves again? Or we do not have-need of letters of recommendation^[b] to you or from you, like some, do we? ²You are our letter— it having been inscribed in our hearts, it being known and being read by all people, ³you being made-known^[c] that you are a letter from^[d] Christ having been served by us, having been inscribed not with ink but with the Spirit of the living God, not in tablets made-of-stone but in tablets^[e] which are hearts made-of-flesh.

It Is God Who Makes Us Sufficient As Ministers of His New Covenant

⁴And we have such^[f] a confidence through Christ toward God— ⁵not that we are sufficient^[g] from ourselves to count anything as out of ourselves, but our sufficiency is from God, ⁶Who indeed made us sufficient as ministers of a new covenant, not of the letter but of the Spirit. For the letter kills, but the Spirit gives-life.

And This Ministry Is More Glorious Than That of The Old Covenant

⁷And if the ministry of death having been engraved in letters on stones came in glory (so that the sons of Israel could not look-intently at the face of Moses because of the glory of his face^[h]— the glory passing-away), ⁸how shall the ministry of the Spirit not be more in glory! ⁹For if in the ministry of condemnation there was glory, by much more the ministry of righteousness is abounding in glory. ¹⁰For indeed the [ministry of the letter]^[i] having been glorified has not^[j] been glorified in this respect— because of the surpassing glory! ¹¹For if the [ministry of the letter] passing-away was with glory, by much more the [ministry of the Spirit] remaining is in glory.

We Don’t Veil The Glory Like Moses. We Reflect It And Are Transformed By It

¹²Therefore, having such a hope, we are using great boldness, ¹³and are not like Moses. He was putting a veil on his face so that the sons of Israel might not look-intently at the end^[k] of the [face of glory]^[l] passing-away. ¹⁴But^[m] their minds were hardened^[n], for until this very day the same^[o] veil remains on the reading of the old covenant— it not being unveiled because^[p] it passes-away^[q] in Christ. ¹⁵Indeed^[r], until today whenever Moses is being read, a veil lies on their heart. ¹⁶But whenever it^[s] turns to the Lord, the veil is taken-away. ¹⁷Now the Lord^[t] is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom! ¹⁸But^[u] we all with a face having been unveiled, while reflecting^[v] the glory of the Lord as a mirror, are being transformed into the same image from glory^[w] to glory, just-as^[x] from the Lord^[y], the Spirit.

Footnotes

2 Corinthians 3:1 Paul pauses to answer a false conclusion that could be drawn from 2:14-17.
2 Corinthians 3:1 That is, to prove we are authorized representatives of God.
2 Corinthians 3:3 That is, through the letter recorded on your hearts.
2 Corinthians 3:3 That is, from Christ to others; or, about Christ.
2 Corinthians 3:3 in tablets... flesh. Or, in tablets made-of-flesh— in hearts.
2 Corinthians 3:4 That is, such as described in 2:14-3:3.
2 Corinthians 3:5 Or, adequate, worthy, competent.
2 Corinthians 3:7 God made the face of Moses shine temporarily, Ex 34:29-30.
2 Corinthians 3:10 Lit, the thing. Paul leaves it to the reader to supply the reference from the context. Likewise three more times below.
2 Corinthians 3:10 That is, the ministry glorified in the face of Moses and other ways pales by comparison to the surpassing glory now.
2 Corinthians 3:13 Or, cessation, termination, finish, goal.
2 Corinthians 3:13 For Paul, the fading glory on Moses’ face symbolized the temporary nature of that covenant. Others supply [ministry of the letter].
2 Corinthians 3:14 Paul makes an application from Moses to Israel.
2 Corinthians 3:14 That is, to the spiritual meaning of the fading glory, and thus to the true intent of the old covenant.
2 Corinthians 3:14 Like the one on Moses, it hides the fading glory.
2 Corinthians 3:14 Or, that; it not being unveiled (revealed) to them that it (the old covenant) passes away in Christ.
2 Corinthians 3:14 Or, is done-away.
2 Corinthians 3:15 Paul clarifies that the veil is not on the Law, but on their hearts.
2 Corinthians 3:16 That is, such a veiled heart (v 15) or hardened mind (v 14); or, a person, a Jew. Or, he (Moses), as the type of one turning to the Lord, Ex 34:34. As with Moses physically then, so today spiritually.
2 Corinthians 3:17 That is, the Lord in Moses’ case (v 16) is the Spirit today; or, the Lord (Christ) is the OT ‘Spirit of the Lord’ in our experience of God today.
2 Corinthians 3:18 Now Paul makes an application from Moses to us, completing what he began in v 13. We are not like Moses who veiled his face... But we all are being transformed.
2 Corinthians 3:18 Or, looking at. Moses did both.
2 Corinthians 3:18 That is, from glory to more glory (not fading); or, from His glory to our glory.
2 Corinthians 3:18 That is, just as would be expected.
2 Corinthians 3:18 That is, the Lord who is the Spirit; or, the Spirit who is the Lord; or, the Lord of the Spirit (that is, who sends the Spirit).

Disciples’ Literal New Testament (DLNT)

Disciples' Literal New Testament: Serving Modern Disciples by More Fully Reflecting the Writing Style of the Ancient Disciples, Copyright © 2011 Michael J. Magill. All Rights Reserved. Published by Reyma Publishing