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

⁷ Now if the ministration of death which was in writing, and engraven on stones, was so glorious that the children of Israel could not look stedfastly on the face of Moses, because of the lustre of his countenance, which was to be taken away: ⁸ shall not the ministration of the Spirit be more glorious? ⁹ For if the ministration of condemnation was so glorious, much more doth the ministration of righteousness exceed in glory: ¹⁰ since what was then made glorious was not in comparison glorious, because of the glory that surpasseth it. ¹¹ For if that, which was to be taken away, came with glory, much more that which abideth is glorious.

¹² Having therefore such hope, we use much freedom of speech: ¹³ and do not as Moses, who put a veil upon his face, intimating that the children of Israel could not look to the end of that which was to be abolished; but their minds were blinded: ¹⁴ for unto this day the same veil remaineth unremoved in the reading of the old testament, which veil is taken away in Christ. ¹⁵ But to this day, when Moses is read, the veil is upon their heart. ¹⁶ Though when it turneth unto the Lord, the veil is taken off: ¹⁷ now the Lord is that Spirit; and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty. ¹⁸ But we all with unveiled face beholding, as in a glass, the glory of the Lord, are transformed according to the same image from glory to glory, as proceeding from the Spirit of the Lord.