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incipimus iterum nosmet ipsos commendare aut numquid egemussicut quidam commendaticiis epistulis ad vos aut ex vobis

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epistula nostra vos estis scripta in cordibus nostris quaescitur et legitur ab omnibus hominibus

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manifestati quoniam epistula estis Christi ministrata anobis et scripta non atramento sed Spiritu Dei vivi non intabulis lapideis sed in tabulis cordis carnalibus

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fiduciam autem talem habemus per Christum ad Deum

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non quod sufficientes simus cogitare aliquid a nobis quasiex nobis sed sufficientia nostra ex Deo est

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qui et idoneos nos fecit ministros novi testamenti nonlitterae sed Spiritus littera enim occidit Spiritus autemvivificat

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quod si ministratio mortis litteris deformata in lapidibusfuit in gloria ita ut non possent intendere filii Israhel infaciem Mosi propter gloriam vultus eius quae evacuatur

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quomodo non magis ministratio Spiritus erit in gloria

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nam si ministratio damnationis gloria est multo magisabundat ministerium iustitiae in gloria

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nam nec glorificatum est quod claruit in hac parte propterexcellentem gloriam

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si enim quod evacuatur per gloriam est multo magis quodmanet in gloria est

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habentes igitur talem spem multa fiducia utimur

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et non sicut Moses ponebat velamen super faciem suam ut nonintenderent filii Israhel in faciem eius quod evacuatur

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sed obtusi sunt sensus eorum usque in hodiernum enim diemid ipsum velamen in lectione veteris testamenti manet nonrevelatum quoniam in Christo evacuatur

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sed usque in hodiernum diem cum legitur Moses velamen estpositum super cor eorum

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cum autem conversus fuerit ad Deum aufertur velamen

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Dominus autem Spiritus est ubi autem Spiritus Domini ibilibertas

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nos vero omnes revelata facie gloriam Domini speculantes ineandem imaginem transformamur a claritate in claritatem tamquama Domini Spiritu

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Do we begin again to commend ourselves? or need we, as some others, epistles of commendation to you, or letters of commendation from you?

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Ye are our epistle written in our hearts, known and read of all men:

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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.

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And such trust have we through Christ to God-ward:

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Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think any thing as of ourselves; but our sufficiency is of God;

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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.

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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:

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How shall not the ministration of the spirit be rather glorious?

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For if the ministration of condemnation be glory, much more doth the ministration of righteousness exceed in glory.

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

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For if that which is done away was glorious, much more that which remaineth is glorious.

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

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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:

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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.

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But even unto this day, when Moses is read, the vail is upon their heart.

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Nevertheless when it shall turn to the Lord, the vail shall be taken away.

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Now the Lord is that Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.

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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.

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