3:1 Do we begin again to commend ourselves? or need we, as some {others}, epistles of commendation to you, or {letters} of commendation from you. 
3:1 Do we begin again to commend ourselves? or need we, as some {others}, epistles of commendation to you, or {letters} of commendation from you? 

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

3:3 {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 on tables of stone, but on fleshly tables of the heart. 
3:3 {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 on tables of stone, but on fleshly tables of the heart. 

3:4 And such trust we have through Christ toward God. 
3:4 And such trust we have through Christ toward God: 

3:5 Not that we are sufficient by ourselves to think any thing as from ourselves; but our sufficiency {is} from God; 
3:5 Not that we are sufficient by ourselves to think any thing as from ourselves; but our sufficiency {is} from God; 

3:6 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. 
3:6 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. 

3:7 But if the ministration of death, written {and} engraven on stones, was glorious, so that the children of Israel could not steadfastly behold the face of Moses for the glory of his countenance; which {glory} was to be done away; 
3:7 But if the ministration of death, written {and} engraven on stones, was glorious, so that the children of Israel could not steadfastly behold the face of Moses for the glory of his countenance; which {glory} was to be done away: 

3:8 How shall not the ministration of the Spirit be rather glorious? 
3:8 How shall not the ministration of the Spirit be more glorious? 

3:9 For if the ministration of condemnation {was} glory, much more doth the ministration of righteousness exceed in glory. 
3:9 For if the ministration of condemnation {was} glory, much more doth the ministration of righteousness exceed in glory. 

3:10 For even that which was made glorious had no glory in this respect, by reason of the glory that excelleth. 
3:10 For even that which was made glorious had no glory in this respect, by reason of the glory that excelleth. 

3:11 For if that which was done away {was} glorious, much more that which remaineth {is} glorious. 
3:11 For if that which was done away {was} glorious, much more that which remaineth {is} glorious. 

3:12 Seeing then that we have such hope, we use great plainness of speech: 
3:12 Seeing then that we have such hope, we use great plainness of speech: 

3:13 And not as Moses, {who} put a vail over his face, that the children of Israel could not steadfastly look to the end of that which is abolished: 
3:13 And not as Moses, {who} put a veil over his face, that the children of Israel could not steadfastly look to the end of that which is abolished: 

3:14 But their minds were blinded: for until this day the same vail remaineth untaken away in the reading of the old testament; which {vail} is done away in Christ. 
3:14 But their minds were blinded: for until this day the same veil remaineth untaken away in the reading of the old testament; which {veil} is done away in Christ. 

3:15 But even to this day, when Moses is read, the vail is upon their heart. 
3:15 But even to this day, when Moses is read, the veil is upon their heart. 

3:16 Nevertheless, when it shall turn to the Lord, the vail shall be taken away. 
3:16 Nevertheless when one shall turn to the Lord, the veil shall be taken away. 

3:17 Now the Lord is that Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord {is}, there {is} liberty. 
3:17 Now the Lord is that Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord {is}, there {is} liberty. 

3:18 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. 
3:18 But we all, with unveiled face beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, {even} as by the Spirit of the Lord.