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         <div class="label">3</div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="2CO.3.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Are we beginning to commend ourselves again? Or do we need, like some people, letters of recommendation to you or from you? </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="2CO.3.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">You yourselves are our letter, written on our hearts, known and read by everyone. </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="2CO.3.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">You show that you are a letter from Christ, the result of our ministry, written not with ink but with the Spirit of the living God, not on tablets of stone but on tablets of human hearts.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="2CO.3.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="2CO.3.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Such confidence we have through Christ before God. </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="2CO.3.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Not that we are competent in ourselves to claim anything for ourselves, but our competence comes from God. </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="2CO.3.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">He has made us competent as ministers of a new covenant&#8212;not of the letter but of the Spirit; for the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The Greater Glory of the New Covenant</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="2CO.3.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="2CO.3.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Now if the ministry that brought death, which was engraved in letters on stone, came with glory, so that the Israelites could not look steadily at the face of Moses because of its glory, transitory though it was, </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="2CO.3.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">will not the ministry of the Spirit be even more glorious? </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="2CO.3.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">If the ministry that brought condemnation was glorious, how much more glorious is the ministry that brings righteousness! </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="2CO.3.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">For what was glorious has no glory now in comparison with the surpassing glory. </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="2CO.3.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">And if what was transitory came with glory, how much greater is the glory of that which lasts!</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="2CO.3.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="2CO.3.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Therefore, since we have such a hope, we are very bold. </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="2CO.3.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">We are not like Moses, who would put a veil over his face to prevent the Israelites from seeing the end of what was passing away. </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="2CO.3.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">But their minds were made dull, for to this day the same veil remains when the old covenant is read. It has not been removed, because only in Christ is it taken away. </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="2CO.3.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">Even to this day when Moses is read, a veil covers their hearts. </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="2CO.3.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">But whenever anyone turns to the Lord, the veil is taken away. </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="2CO.3.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom. </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="2CO.3.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">And we all, who with unveiled faces contemplate</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">3:18 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">reflect</span></span></span><span class="content"> the Lord&#8217;s glory, are being transformed into his image with ever-increasing glory, which comes from the Lord, who is the Spirit.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="q1"><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="JER.31.31"><span class="label">31</span><span class="content">&#8220;The days are coming,&#8221; declares the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="JER.31.31"><span class="content">&#8220;when I will make a new covenant</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="JER.31.31"><span class="content">with the people of Israel</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="JER.31.31"><span class="content">and with the people of Judah.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="JER.31.31"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="JER.31.32"><span class="label">32</span><span class="content">It will not be like the covenant</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="JER.31.32"><span class="content">I made with their ancestors</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="JER.31.32"><span class="content">when I took them by the hand</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="JER.31.32"><span class="content">to lead them out of Egypt,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="JER.31.32"><span class="content">because they broke my covenant,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="JER.31.32"><span class="content">though I was a husband to</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">31:32 </span><span class="ft">Hebrew; Septuagint and Syriac </span><span class="fqa">/ and I turned away from</span></span></span><span class="content"> them,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">31:32 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">was their master</span></span></span><span class="content">&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q4"><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="JER.31.32"><span class="content">declares the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="JER.31.32"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="JER.31.33"><span class="label">33</span><span class="content">&#8220;This is the covenant I will make with the people of Israel</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="JER.31.33"><span class="content">after that time,&#8221; declares the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="JER.31.33"><span class="content">&#8220;I will put my law in their minds</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="JER.31.33"><span class="content">and write it on their hearts.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="JER.31.33"><span class="content">I will be their God,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="JER.31.33"><span class="content">and they will be my people.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="JER.31.33"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="JER.31.34"><span class="label">34</span><span class="content">No longer will they teach their neighbor,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="JER.31.34"><span class="content">or say to one another, &#8216;Know the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">,&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="JER.31.34"><span class="content">because they will all know me,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="JER.31.34"><span class="content">from the least of them to the greatest,&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q4"><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="JER.31.34"><span class="content">declares the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="JER.31.34"><span class="content">&#8220;For I will forgive their wickedness</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="JER.31.34"><span class="content">and will remember their sins no more.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="JER.31.34"><span class="content">  </span></span></div>
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         <div class="p"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="1JN.3.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Dear friends, now we are children of God, and what we will be has not yet been made known. But we know that when Christ appears,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">3:2 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">when it is made known</span></span></span><span class="content"> we shall be like him, for we shall see him as he is. </span></span></div>
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