New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures — With References (Rbi8, en_US, 1984)

2 Corinthians

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1 Are we starting again to recommend ourselves? Or do we, perhaps, like some men, need letters of recommendation to YOU or from YOU?

2 YOU yourselves are our letter, inscribed on our*1 hearts and known and being read by all mankind.

  1. “Our,” P46ABCDVgSyh,p; א, “your.”

3 For YOU are shown to be a letter of Christ written by us as ministers, inscribed not with ink but with spirit of a living God, not on stone tablets, but on fleshly tablets, on hearts.*1

  1. Or, “on tablets, on fleshly hearts.”

4 Now through the Christ we have this sort of confidence toward God.

5 Not that we of ourselves are adequately qualified to reckon anything as issuing from ourselves, but our being adequately qualified*1 issues from God,

  1. Lit., “the sufficiency of us.”

6 who has indeed adequately qualified us to be ministers*1 of a new covenant, not of a written code,*2 but of spirit; for the written code condemns to death, but the spirit makes alive.

  1. Or, “servants.” Gr., di·a·koʹnous; Lat., mi·niʹstros (from miʹnus, “less”); J22(Heb.), mesha·rethimʹ.

  2. Lit., “of written character.” Gr., gramʹma·tos; Lat., litʹte·rae.

7 Moreover, if the code which administers death and which was engraved*1 in letters in stones came about in a glory, so that the sons of Israel could not gaze intently at the face of Moses because of the glory of his face, [a glory] that was to be done away with,

  1. Or, “if the administering of death engraved.”

8 why should not the administering of the spirit be much more with glory?

9 For if the code administering condemnation*1 was glorious,*2 much more does the administering of righteousness abound with glory.

  1. Or, “if the administering of condemnation.”

  2. Lit., “was a glory.”

10 In fact, even that which has once been made glorious has been stripped of glory in this respect, because of the glory that excels it.

11 For if that which was to be done away with was brought in with glory, much more would that which remains be with glory.

12 Therefore, as we have such a hope, we are using great freeness of speech,

13 and not doing as when Moses would put a veil upon his face, that the sons of Israel might not gaze intently at the end of that which was to be done away with.

14 But their mental powers were dulled. For to this present day the same veil remains unlifted at the reading of the old covenant,*1 because it is done away with by means of Christ.

  1. For a discussion of the expressions “The Old Testament” and “The New Testament,” see App 7E.

15 In fact, down till today whenever Moses is read, a veil lies upon their hearts.

16 But when there is a turning to Jehovah,*1 the veil is taken away.

  1. See App 1D.

17 Now Jehovah*1 is the Spirit; and where the spirit of Jehovah*2 is, there is freedom.

  1. See App 1D.

  2. See App 1D.

18 And all of us, while we with unveiled faces reflect like mirrors the glory of Jehovah,*1 are transformed into the same image from glory to glory, exactly as done by Jehovah*2 [the] Spirit.*3

  1. See App 1D.

  2. See App 1D.

  3. Or, “by Jehovah’s spirit.”

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