- Matthew 1
- Matthew 2
- Matthew 3
- Matthew 4
- Matthew 5:1-26
- Matthew 5:27-48
- Matthew 6:1-18
- Matthew 6:19-34
- Matthew 7
- Matthew 8:1-17
- Matthew 8:18-34
- Matthew 9:1-17
- Matthew 9:18-38
- Matthew 10:1-25
- Matthew 10:26-11:1
- Matthew 11:2-30
- Matthew 12:1-21
- Matthew 12:22-50
- Matthew 13:1-32
- Matthew 13:33-58
- Matthew 14:1-21
- Matthew 14:22-36
- Matthew 15:1-20
- Matthew 15:21-39
- Matthew 16
- Matthew 17
- Matthew 18:1-14
- Matthew 18:15-35
- Matthew 19
- Matthew 20:1-16
- Matthew 20:17-34
- Matthew 21:1-22
- Matthew 21:23-46
- Matthew 22:1-22
- Matthew 22:23-46
- Matthew 23:1-22
- Matthew 23:23-39
- Matthew 24:1-28
- Matthew 24:29-51
- Matthew 25:1-30
- Matthew 25:31-46
- Matthew 26:1-46
- Matthew 26:47-75
- Matthew 27:1-31
- Matthew 27:32-66
- Matthew 28
- Mark 1:1-20
- Mark 1:21-45
- Mark 2
- Mark 3:1-19
- Mark 3:20-35
- Mark 4:1-20
- Mark 4:21-41
- Mark 5:1-20
- Mark 5:21-43
- Mark 6:1-29
- Mark 6:30-56
- Mark 7:1-23
- Mark 7:24-37
- Mark 8:1-21
- Mark 8:22-9:1
- Mark 9:2-29
- Mark 9:30-50
- Mark 10:1-31
- Mark 10:32-52
- Mark 11:1-14
- Mark 11:15-33
- Mark 12:1-27
- Mark 12:28-44
- Mark 13:1-23
- Mark 13:24-37
- Mark 14:1-31
- Mark 14:32-72
- Mark 15:1-20
- Mark 15:21-47
- Mark 16
- Luke 1:1-38
- Luke 1:39-80
- Luke 2:1-24
- Luke 2:25-52
- Luke 3:1-22
- Luke 3:23-38
- Luke 4:1-30
- Luke 4:31-44
- Luke 5:1-16
- Luke 5:17-39
- Luke 6:1-16
- Luke 6:17-49
- Luke 7:1-35
- Luke 7:36-50
- Luke 8:1-25
- Luke 8:26-56
- Luke 9:1-27
- Luke 9:28-62
- Luke 10:1-24
- Luke 10:25-42
- Luke 11:1-28
- Luke 11:29-54
- Luke 12:1-34
- Luke 12:35-59
- Luke 13:1-17
- Luke 13:18-35
- Luke 14:1-14
- Luke 14:15-35
- Luke 15:1-10
- Luke 15:11-32
- Luke 16
- Luke 17:1-19
- Luke 17:20-37
- Luke 18:1-17
- Luke 18:18-43
- Luke 19:1-27
- Luke 19:28-48
- Luke 20:1-19
- Luke 20:20-47
- Luke 21:1-19
- Luke 21:20-38
- Luke 22:1-38
- Luke 22:39-71
- Luke 23:1-25
- Luke 23:26-56
- Luke 24:1-35
- Luke 24:36-53
- John 1:1-28
- John 1:29-51
- John 2
- John 3:1-21
- John 3:22-36
- John 4:1-38
- John 4:39-54
- John 5:1-15
- John 5:16-47
- John 6:1-24
- John 6:25-71
- John 7:1-24
- John 7:25-52
- John 7:53-8:11
- John 8:12-59
- John 9:1-17
- John 9:18-41
- John 10:1-21
- John 10:22-42
- John 11:1-44
- John 11:45-57
- John 12:1-19
- John 12:20-50
- John 13:1-17
- John 13:18-38
- John 14
- John 15
- John 16:1-15
- John 16:16-33
- John 17
- John 18:1-18
- John 18:19-40
- John 19:1-16
- John 19:16-42
- John 20
- John 21
- Acts 1
- Acts 2:1-28
- Acts 2:29-47
- Acts 3
- Acts 4:1-22
- Acts 4:23-37
- Acts 5:1-16
- Acts 5:17-42
- Acts 6
- Acts 7:1-29
- Acts 7:30-8:1
- Acts 8:1-25
- Acts 8:26-40
- Acts 9:1-22
- Acts 9:23-43
- Acts 10:1-33
- Acts 10:34-48
- Acts 11
- Acts 12
- Acts 13:1-25
- Acts 13:26-52
- Acts 14
- Acts 15:1-21
- Acts 15:22-41
- Acts 16:1-15
- Acts 16:16-40
- Acts 17:1-15
- Acts 17:16-34
- Acts 18
- Acts 19:1-20
- Acts 19:21-41
- Acts 20:1-12
- Acts 20:13-38
- Acts 21:1-14
- Acts 21:15-40
- Acts 22:1-29
- Acts 22:30-23:11
- Acts 23:12-35
- Acts 24
- Acts 25
- Acts 26:1-18
- Acts 26:19-32
- Acts 27:1-26
- Acts 27:27-44
- Acts 28:1-16
- Acts 28:17-31
- Romans 1:1-17
- Romans 1:18-32
- Romans 2
- Romans 3:1-20
- Romans 3:21-31
- Romans 4
- Romans 5
- Romans 6
- Romans 7
- Romans 8:1-17
- Romans 8:18-39
- Romans 9:1-15
- Romans 9:16-33
- Romans 10
- Romans 11:1-24
- Romans 11:25-36
- Romans 12
- Romans 13
- Romans 14
- Romans 15
- Romans 16
- 1 Corinthians 1:1-17
- 1 Corinthians 1:18-31
- 1 Corinthians 2
- 1 Corinthians 3
- 1 Corinthians 4
- 1 Corinthians 5
- 1 Corinthians 6
- 1 Corinthians 7:1-16
- 1 Corinthians 7:17-40
- 1 Corinthians 8
- 1 Corinthians 9
- 1 Corinthians 10:1-13
- 1 Corinthians 10:14-11:1
- 1 Corinthians 11:2-16
- 1 Corinthians 11:17-34
- 1 Corinthians 12
- 1 Corinthians 13
- 1 Corinthians 14:1-25
- 1 Corinthians 14:26-40
- 1 Corinthians 15:1-11
- 1 Corinthians 15:12-34
- 1 Corinthians 15:35-58
- 1 Corinthians 16
- 2 Corinthians 1:1-22
- 2 Corinthians 1:23-2:17
- 2 Corinthians 3
- 2 Corinthians 4
- 2 Corinthians 5
- 2 Corinthians 6
- 2 Corinthians 7
- 2 Corinthians 8
- 2 Corinthians 9
- 2 Corinthians 10
- 2 Corinthians 11:1-15
- 2 Corinthians 11:16-33
- 2 Corinthians 12
- 2 Corinthians 13
- Galatians 1
- Galatians 2
- Galatians 3
- Galatians 4
- Galatians 5
- Galatians 6
- Ephesians 1
- Ephesians 2
- Ephesians 3
- Ephesians 4:1-16
- Ephesians 4:17-32
- Ephesians 5:1-14
- Ephesians 5:15-33
- Ephesians 6
- Philippians 1
- Philippians 2
- Philippians 3
- Philippians 4
- Colossians 1
- Colossians 2
- Colossians 3:1-4:1
- Colossians 4:2-18
- 1 Thessalonians 1
- 1 Thessalonians 2
- 1 Thessalonians 3
- 1 Thessalonians 4
- 1 Thessalonians 5
- 2 Thessalonians 1
- 2 Thessalonians 2
- 2 Thessalonians 3
- 1 Timothy 1
- 1 Timothy 2
- 1 Timothy 3
- 1 Timothy 4
- 1 Timothy 5
- 1 Timothy 6
- 2 Timothy 1
- 2 Timothy 2
- 2 Timothy 3
- 2 Timothy 4
- Titus 1
- Titus 2
- Titus 3
- Philemon 1
- Hebrews 1
- Hebrews 2
- Hebrews 3
- Hebrews 4
- Hebrews 5
- Hebrews 6
- Hebrews 7
- Hebrews 8
- Hebrews 9
- Hebrews 10:1-18
- Hebrews 10:19-39
- Hebrews 11:1-22
- Hebrews 11:23-40
- Hebrews 12
- Hebrews 13
- James 1
- James 2
- James 3
- James 4
- James 5
- 1 Peter 1
- 1 Peter 2
- 1 Peter 3
- 1 Peter 4
- 1 Peter 5
- 2 Peter 1
- 2 Peter 2
- 2 Peter 3
- 1 John 1:1-2:2
- 1 John 2:3-27
- 1 John 2:28-3:24
- 1 John 4:1-5:4a
- 1 John 5:4b-21
- 2 John 1
- 3 John 1
- Jude 1
- Revelation 1
- Revelation 2
- Revelation 3
- Revelation 4
- Revelation 5
- Revelation 6
- Revelation 7
- Revelation 8
- Revelation 9
- Revelation 10
- Revelation 11
- Revelation 12
- Revelation 13
- Revelation 14
- Revelation 15
- Revelation 16
- Revelation 17
- Revelation 18
- Revelation 19
- Revelation 20
- Revelation 21
- Revelation 22
A Living Letter
1 Are we beginning to commend ourselves again? We don’t need letters of recommendation to you or from you as some other people do, do we? 2 You yourselves are our letter, written on our hearts, known and read by everyone, 3 revealing that you are a letter of Christ, delivered by us, written not with ink but by the Spirit of the living God, not on stone tablets but on tablets of human hearts.
4 Now we have such confidence in God through Christ. 5 Not that we are adequate in ourselves to consider anything as if it were coming from ourselves, but our adequacy is from God, 6 who made us adequate to be servants of a new covenant not based on the letter but on the Spirit, for the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.
The Greater Glory of the Spirit’s Ministry
7 But if the ministry that produced death – carved in letters on stone tablets – came with glory, so that the Israelites could not keep their eyes fixed on the face of Moses because of the glory of his face (a glory which was made ineffective), 8 how much more glorious will the ministry of the Spirit be? 9 For if there was glory in the ministry that produced condemnation, how much more does the ministry that produces righteousness excel in glory! 10 For indeed, what had been glorious now has no glory because of the tremendously greater glory of what replaced it. 11 For if what was made ineffective came with glory, how much more has what remains come in glory! 12 Therefore, since we have such a hope, we behave with great boldness, 13 and not like Moses who used to put a veil over his face to keep the Israelites from staring at the result of the glory that was made ineffective. 14 But their minds were closed. For to this very day, the same veil remains when they hear the old covenant read. It has not been removed because only in Christ is it taken away. 15 But until this very day whenever Moses is read, a veil lies over their minds, 16 but when one turns to the Lord, the veil is removed. 17 Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is present, there is freedom. 18 And we all, with unveiled faces reflecting the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from one degree of glory to another, which is from the Lord, who is the Spirit.