2 Corinthians 3:7-18 - The Glory Of The New Covenant

⁷ If the system of religion which involved Death, embodied in a written Law and engraved on stones, began amid such glory, that the Israelites were unable to gaze at the face of Moses on account of its glory, though it was but a passing glory, ⁸ Will not the religion that confers the Spirit have still greater glory? ⁹ For, if there was a glory in the religion that involved condemnation, far greater is the glory of the religion that confers righteousness! ¹⁰ Indeed, that which then had glory has lost its glory, because of the glory which surpasses it. ¹¹ And, if that which was to pass away was attended with glory, far more will that which is to endure be surrounded with glory!

¹² With such a hope as this, we speak with all plainness; ¹³ Unlike Moses, who covered his face with a veil, to prevent the Israelites from gazing at the disappearance of what was passing away. ¹⁴ But their minds were slow to learn. Indeed, to this very day, at the public reading of the Old Covenant, the same veil remains unlifted; only for those who are in union with Christ does it pass away. ¹⁵ But, even to this day, whenever Moses is read, a veil lies on their hearts. ¹⁶ 'Yet, whenever a man turns to the Lord, the veil is removed.' ¹⁷ And the 'Lord' is the Spirit, and, where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom. ¹⁸ And all of us, with faces from which the veil is lifted, seeing, as if reflected in a mirror, the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into his likeness, from glory to glory, as it is given by the Lord, the Spirit.