{"meta":{"source":"Prime Bible","sourceUrl":"https://primebible.com","license":"Public domain (translation text); see citation policy at /citation-policy","organization":"501(c)(3) nonprofit — EIN 41-2531951","canonicalUrl":"https://primebible.com/kjv/2-corinthians/3","llmTxt":"https://primebible.com/llms.txt","generatedAt":"2026-05-30T09:19:17.989Z"},"reference":{"translation":"KJV","book":"2 Corinthians","bookSlug":"2-corinthians","chapter":3,"testament":"NEW"},"navigation":{"previousChapter":2,"nextChapter":4,"totalChapters":13,"totalVerses":18},"verses":[{"verseNumber":1,"text":"Do we begin again to commend ourselves? or need we, as some <i>others</i>, epistles of commendation to you, or <i>letters</i> of commendation from you?"},{"verseNumber":2,"text":"Ye are our epistle written in our hearts, known and read of all men:"},{"verseNumber":3,"text":"<i>Forasmuch as ye are</i> 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."},{"verseNumber":4,"text":"And such trust have we through Christ to God-ward:"},{"verseNumber":5,"text":"Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think any thing as of ourselves; but our sufficiency <i>is</i> of God;"},{"verseNumber":6,"text":"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."},{"verseNumber":7,"text":"But if the ministration of death, written <i>and</i> 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 <i>glory</i> was to be done away:"},{"verseNumber":8,"text":"How shall not the ministration of the spirit be rather glorious?"},{"verseNumber":9,"text":"For if the ministration of condemnation <i>be</i> glory, much more doth the ministration of righteousness exceed in glory."},{"verseNumber":10,"text":"For even that which was made glorious had no glory in this respect, by reason of the glory that excelleth."},{"verseNumber":11,"text":"For if that which is done away <i>was</i> glorious, much more that which remaineth <i>is</i> glorious."},{"verseNumber":12,"text":"Seeing then that we have such hope, we use great plainness of speech:"},{"verseNumber":13,"text":"And not as Moses, <i>which</i> put a vail over his face, that the children of Israel could not stedfastly look to the end of that which is abolished:"},{"verseNumber":14,"text":"But their minds were blinded: for until this day remaineth the same vail untaken away in the reading of the old testament; which <i>vail</i> is done away in Christ."},{"verseNumber":15,"text":"But even unto this day, when Moses is read, the vail is upon their heart."},{"verseNumber":16,"text":"Nevertheless when it shall turn to the Lord, the vail shall be taken away."},{"verseNumber":17,"text":"Now the Lord is that Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord <i>is</i>, there <i>is</i> liberty."},{"verseNumber":18,"text":"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, <i>even</i> as by the Spirit of the Lord."}],"citation":{"inline":"2 Corinthians 3 (KJV)","markdown":"[2 Corinthians 3](https://primebible.com/kjv/2-corinthians/3)","sbl":"Prime Bible. *The Bible.* KJV. https://primebible.com/kjv/2-corinthians/3 (accessed 2026-05-30)."}}