47:002:014 Now thanks be unto God, which always causeth us to triumph in Christ, and maketh manifest the savour of his knowledge by us in every place. 47:002:015 For we are unto God a sweet savour of Christ, in them that are saved, and in them that perish: 47:002:016 To the one we are the savour of death unto death; and to the other the savour of life unto life. And who is sufficient for these things? 47:002:017 For we are not as many, which corrupt the word of God: but as of sincerity, but as of God, in the sight of God speak we in Christ. 47:003:001 Do we begin again to commend ourselves? or need we, as some others, epistles of commendation to you, or letters of commendation from you? 47:003:002 Ye are our epistle written in our hearts, known and read of all men: 47:003:003 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. 47:003:004 And such trust have we through Christ to God-ward: 47:003:005 Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think any thing as of ourselves; but our sufficiency is of God; 47:003:006 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. 47:003:007 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: 47:003:008 How shall not the ministration of the spirit be rather glorious? 47:003:009 For if the ministration of condemnation be glory, much more doth the ministration of righteousness exceed in glory. 47:003:010 For even that which was made glorious had no glory in this respect, by reason of the glory that excelleth. 47:003:011 For if that which is done away was glorious, much more that which remaineth is glorious. 47:003:012 Seeing then that we have such hope, we use great plainness of speech: 47:003:013 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: 47:003:014 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. 47:003:015 But even unto this day, when Moses is read, the vail is upon their heart. 47:003:016 Nevertheless when it shall turn to the Lord, the vail shall be taken away.