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    "book": "2-corinthians",
    "chapter": 3
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        "n": 1,
        "refId": "2CO-3:1",
        "verseRef": "2CO.3.1",
        "text": "Are we beginning again to commend ourselves? or need we, as do some, epistles of commendation to you or from you?"
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        "n": 2,
        "refId": "2CO-3:2",
        "verseRef": "2CO.3.2",
        "text": "Ye are our epistle, written in our hearts, known and read of all men;"
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        "n": 3,
        "refId": "2CO-3:3",
        "verseRef": "2CO.3.3",
        "text": "being made manifest that ye are an 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 tables [that are] hearts of flesh."
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        "n": 4,
        "refId": "2CO-3:4",
        "verseRef": "2CO.3.4",
        "text": "And such confidence have we through Christ to God-ward:"
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        "n": 5,
        "refId": "2CO-3:5",
        "verseRef": "2CO.3.5",
        "text": "not that we are sufficient of ourselves, to account anything as from ourselves; but our sufficiency is from God;"
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        "n": 6,
        "refId": "2CO-3:6",
        "verseRef": "2CO.3.6",
        "text": "who also made us sufficient as ministers of a new covenant; not of the letter, but of the spirit: for the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life."
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        "n": 7,
        "refId": "2CO-3:7",
        "verseRef": "2CO.3.7",
        "text": "But if the ministration of death, written, [and] engraven on stones, came with glory, so that the children of Israel could not look stedfastly upon the face of Moses for the glory of his face; which [glory] was passing away:"
      },{
        "n": 8,
        "refId": "2CO-3:8",
        "verseRef": "2CO.3.8",
        "text": "how shall not rather the ministration of the spirit be with glory?"
      },{
        "n": 9,
        "refId": "2CO-3:9",
        "verseRef": "2CO.3.9",
        "text": "For if the ministration of condemnation hath glory, much rather doth the ministration of righteousness exceed in glory."
      },{
        "n": 10,
        "refId": "2CO-3:10",
        "verseRef": "2CO.3.10",
        "text": "For verily that which hath been made glorious hath not been made glorious in this respect, by reason of the glory that surpasseth."
      },{
        "n": 11,
        "refId": "2CO-3:11",
        "verseRef": "2CO.3.11",
        "text": "For if that which passeth away [was] with glory, much more that which remaineth [is] in glory."
      },{
        "n": 12,
        "refId": "2CO-3:12",
        "verseRef": "2CO.3.12",
        "text": "Having therefore such a hope, we use great boldness of speech,"
      },{
        "n": 13,
        "refId": "2CO-3:13",
        "verseRef": "2CO.3.13",
        "text": "and [are] not as Moses, [who] put a veil upon his face, that the children of Israel should not look stedfastly on the end of that which was passing away:"
      },{
        "n": 14,
        "refId": "2CO-3:14",
        "verseRef": "2CO.3.14",
        "text": "but their minds were hardened: for until this very day at the reading of the old covenant the same veil remaineth, it not being revealed [to them] that it is done away in Christ."
      },{
        "n": 15,
        "refId": "2CO-3:15",
        "verseRef": "2CO.3.15",
        "text": "But unto this day, whensoever Moses is read, a veil lieth upon their heart."
      },{
        "n": 16,
        "refId": "2CO-3:16",
        "verseRef": "2CO.3.16",
        "text": "But whensoever it shall turn to the Lord, the veil is taken away."
      },{
        "n": 17,
        "refId": "2CO-3:17",
        "verseRef": "2CO.3.17",
        "text": "Now the Lord is the Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord is, [there] is liberty."
      },{
        "n": 18,
        "refId": "2CO-3:18",
        "verseRef": "2CO.3.18",
        "text": "But we all, with unveiled face beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are transformed into the same image from glory to glory, even as from the Lord the Spirit."
      }
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