1Doe we begin to praise our selues againe? or neede we as some other, epistles of recommendation vnto you, or letters of recommendation from you? 2Yee are our epistle, written in our hearts, which is vnderstand, and read of all men, 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 in tables of stone, but in fleshy tables of the heart. 4And such trust have we through Christ to God-ward: 5Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think any thing as of ourselves; but our sufficiency [is] of God; 6Who 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. 7But 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: 8How shall not the ministration of the spirit be rather glorious? 9For if the ministration of condemnation [be] glory, much more doth the ministration of righteousness exceed in glory. 10For euen that which was glorified, was not glorified in this point, that is, as touching the exceeding glorie. 11For if that which is done away [was] glorious, much more that which remaineth [is] glorious. 12Seeing then that we have such hope, we use great plainness of speech: 13And 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: 14Therefore their mindes are hardened: for vntill this day remaineth the same couering vntaken away in the reading of the olde Testament, which vaile in Christ is put away. 15But euen vnto this day, whe Moses is read, the vaile is laid ouer their hearts. 16Neuertheles when their heart shall be turned to the Lord, the vaile shalbe taken away. 17Now the Lord is that Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord [is], there [is] liberty. 18But 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.