\subsection{II Corinthians 3} \VS{1} Do we again begin to be commending ourselves? Or do we need, as some, letters of commendation to you or from you? \VS{2} You are our letter, written in our hearts, being known and being read by all men, \VS{3} [you] manifesting that you are [a] letter of Christ served by us, written not with ink, but with the spirit of the zoe-living\fnZoe{} God, not in tablets [of] stone, but in tablets [of] fleshy hearts. \VS{4} So we have such confidence through Christ towards God. \VS{5} Not that from ourselves we are adequate to be reckoned anything as from ourselves, but our adequacy [is] from God \VS{6} who also made us adequate servants of the new contract\footnote{or ``covenant'', ``testament''}, not of letter but of spirit, for the letter kills, but the spirit makes-zoe-alive. \VS{7} Now if the service of death, written [and] carved in stones, came [about] in glory, so that the sons [of] Israel were not able to look intently into the face of Moses because of the glory of his face, the [glory] being nullified, \VS{8} how will the service of the spirit not be rather in glory? \VS{9} For if the service of judgment [is] glory, much more does the service of justice abound in glory. \VS{10} For even the [thing] glorified was not glorified in this respect, on account of the glory [which] surpasses [it]. \VS{11} For if the [thing] nullified [was] through glory, rather much more [is] the [thing] abiding through glory. \VS{12} Having therefore such hope, let us be using much boldness, \VS{13} and not as Moses [who] put [a] veil upon his face so that the sons [of] Israel could not look intently upon the end\footnote{or ``completion''} of [that] being nullified. \VS{14} But their minds were hardened, for until this day the same veil remains upon the reading of the old contract\footnote{or ``covenant'', ``testament''}, [it] not being unveiled that in Christ it is nullified. \VS{15} But until today, whenever Moses is read, [a] veil lays upon their hearts. \VS{16} But whenever it turns to the Lord, the veil will be removed. \VS{17} Now the Lord is the spirit, and where [is] the spirit of the Lord, [there is] freedom. \VS{18} But we all, with unveiled face, contemplating as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from glory into glory, as from the Lord of the spirit.