First Reading
2 Corinthians 3:4-11
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And such confidence we have, through Christ, towards God.
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Not that we are sufficient to think any thing of ourselves, as of ourselves: but our sufficiency is from God.
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Who also hath made us fit ministers of the new testament, not in the letter, but in the spirit. For the letter killeth, but the spirit quickeneth.
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Now if the ministration of death, engraven with letters upon stones, was glorious; so that the children of Israel could not steadfastly behold the face of Moses, for the glory of his countenance, which is made void:
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How shall not the ministration of the spirit be rather in glory?
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For if the ministration of condemnation be glory, much more the ministration of justice aboundeth in glory.
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For even that which was glorious in this part was not glorified, by reason of the glory that excelleth.
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For if that which is done away was glorious, much more that which remaineth is in glory.
Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition · public domain · 73 books. Psalm numbers follow the Roman lectionary.