2 Corinthians Chapter 3
So, are we really flexing again? Do we need some letters of recommendation from you or anyone else, fr?
Do we begin again to commend ourselves? or need we, as some {others}, epistles of commendation to you, or {letters} of commendation from you?
You all are our letter, written in our hearts, and everyone’s checking it out, no cap.
Ye are our epistle written in our hearts, known and read of all men:
It’s clear that you’re the letter of Christ we’re serving, not penned with ink, but by the Spirit of the living God; not on stone slabs, but on hearts, periodt.
{Forasmuch as ye are} manifestly declared to be the 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 fleshy tables of the heart.
We vibe with God through Christ, for real.
And such trust have we through Christ to God-ward:
It’s not like we’re sufficient on our own to think anything, but our power comes from God, for sure.
Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think any thing as of ourselves; but our sufficiency {is} of God;
He’s made us dope ministers of the new vibe; it’s not about the letter, but the spirit: the letter kills, but the spirit brings life, fr.
Who also hath made us able ministers of the new testament; not of the letter, but of the spirit: for the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life. {giveth life: or, quickeneth}
If the ministry of death, engraved on rocks, was glorious, to the point where the Israelites couldn’t even peep Moses’ face because of the shine, that glory was meant to fade, no cap.
But if the ministration of death, written {and} engraven in stones, was glorious, so that the children of Israel could not stedfastly behold the face of Moses for the glory of his countenance; which {glory} was to be done away:
How much more lit is the ministry of the spirit?
How shall not the ministration of the spirit be rather glorious?
If the ministry of condemnation is glorious, then the ministry of righteousness is way more lit, no doubt.
For if the ministration of condemnation {be} glory, much more doth the ministration of righteousness exceed in glory.
Even the glorious stuff was nothing compared to what’s better, fr.
For even that which was made glorious had no glory in this respect, by reason of the glory that excelleth.
If what was fading away had glory, then what’s still here is way more goated.
For if that which is done away {was} glorious, much more that which remaineth {is} glorious.
So, since we hold onto this hope, we keep it real when we talk.
Seeing then that we have such hope, we use great plainness of speech: {plainness: or, boldness}
Not like Moses, who rocked a veil so the Israelites couldn’t see the end of what was fading away.
And not as Moses, {which} put a vail over his face, that the children of Israel could not stedfastly look to the end of that which is abolished:
Their minds were totally blocked; even today, the same veil is still there when going through the old vibe; but that veil is lifted in Christ, periodt.
But their minds were blinded: for until this day remaineth the same vail untaken away in the reading of the old testament; which {vail} is done away in Christ.
Even now, when Moses is read, that veil stays on their hearts, no cap.
But even unto this day, when Moses is read, the vail is upon their heart.
But whenever they turn to the Lord, that veil gets removed.
Nevertheless when it shall turn to the Lord, the vail shall be taken away.
The Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit is, there’s freedom, fr.
Now the Lord is that Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord {is}, there {is} liberty.
We all, without a filter, are checking out the glory of the Lord like a mirror, and we’re being changed into that same vibe from glory to glory, just as by the Spirit of the Lord.
But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, {even} as by the Spirit of the Lord. {by the...: or, of the Lord the Spirit}