3:1 Are we beginning again to commend ourselves? or need we, as do some, epistles of commendation to you or from you?
3:1 Are we beginning to commend ourselves again? Or do we need, as some, letters of commendation to you or from you?

3:2 Ye are our epistle, written in our hearts, known and read of all men;
3:2 You are our letter, written in our hearts, known and read by all men;

3:3 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.
3:3 being manifested that you are a letter of Christ, cared for by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God, not on tablets of stone, but on tablets of human hearts.

3:4 And such confidence have we through Christ to God-ward:
3:4 And such confidence we have through Christ toward God.

3:5 not that we are sufficient of ourselves, to account anything as from ourselves; but our sufficiency is from God;
3:5 Not that we are adequate in ourselves to consider anything as [coming] from ourselves, but our adequacy is from God,

3:6 who also made us sufficient as ministers of a new covenant; not of the letter, but of the spirit: for the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life.
3:6 who also made us adequate [as] servants of a new covenant, not of the letter, but of the Spirit; for the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.

3:7 But if the ministration of death, written, (and) engraven on stones, came with glory, so that the children of Israel could not look stedfastly upon the face of Moses for the glory of his face; which (glory) was passing away:
3:7 But if the ministry of death, in letters engraved on stones, came with glory, so that the sons of Israel could not look intently at the face of Moses because of the glory of his face, fading [as] it was,

3:8 how shall not rather the ministration of the spirit be with glory?
3:8 how shall the ministry of the Spirit fail to be even more with glory?

3:9 For if the ministration of condemnation hath glory, much rather doth the ministration of righteousness exceed in glory.
3:9 For if the ministry of condemnation has glory, much more does the ministry of righteousness abound in glory.

3:10 For verily that which hath been made glorious hath not been made glorious in this respect, by reason of the glory that surpasseth.
3:10 For indeed what had glory, in this case has no glory on account of the glory that surpasses [it.]

3:11 For if that which passeth away (was) with glory, much more that which remaineth (is) in glory.
3:11 For if that which fades away [was] with glory, much more that which remains [is] in glory.

3:12 Having therefore such a hope, we use great boldness of speech,
3:12 Having therefore such a hope, we use great boldness in [our] speech,

3:13 and (are) not as Moses, (who) put a veil upon his face, that the children of Israel should not look stedfastly on the end of that which was passing away:
3:13 and [are] not as Moses, [who] used to put a veil over his face that the sons of Israel might not look intently at the end of what was fading away.

3:14 but their minds were hardened: for until this very day at the reading of the old covenant the same veil remaineth, it not being revealed (to them) that it is done away in Christ.
3:14 But their minds were hardened; for until this very day at the reading of the old covenant the same veil remains unlifted, because it is removed in Christ.

3:15 But unto this day, whensoever Moses is read, a veil lieth upon their heart.
3:15 But to this day whenever Moses is read, a veil lies over their heart;

3:16 But whensoever it shall turn to the Lord, the veil is taken away.
3:16 but whenever a man turns to the Lord, the veil is taken away.

3:17 Now the Lord is the Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord is, (there) is liberty.
3:17 Now the Lord is the Spirit; and where the Spirit of the Lord is, [there] is liberty.

3:18 But we all, with unveiled face 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.
3:18 But we all, with unveiled face beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory, just as from the Lord, the Spirit.