For we are not like many, peddling the word of God, but as from sincerity, but as from God, we speak in Christ in the sight of God.

But if the ministry of death, in letters engraved on stones, came with glory, so that the sons of Israel could not look intently at the face of Moses because of the glory of his face, fading as it was,

and are not like Moses, who used to put a veil over his face so that the sons of Israel would not look intently at the end of what was fading away.

while we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen; for the things which are seen are temporal, but the things which are not seen are eternal.

Now in a like exchange—I speak as to children—open wide to us also.

as it is written, “He who gathered much did not have too much, and he who gathered little had no lack.”

Finally, brethren, rejoice, be made complete, be comforted, be like-minded, live in peace; and the God of love and peace will be with you.