1 Why are we beginning again to tell you all these good things about ourselves? Do we need letters of introduction to you or from you, like some other people? 2 No, you yourselves are our letter, written on our hearts. It is known and read by all people. 3 You show that you are a letter from Messiah that he sent through us. This letter is not written with ink but with the Spirit of the living Alahim YAHUAH. It is not written on stone tablets but on human hearts.
4 We can say this, because through Messiah we feel sure before YAHUAH. 5 I don’t mean that we are able to do anything good ourselves. It is YAHUSHA Who makes us able to do all that we do. 6 He made us able to be servants of a new Blood-Covenant from Himself to His people. It is not a Covenant of written laws, but it’s of the Spirit - supernatural. The written law brings death, but the Spirit gives life.
7 The old Blood-Covenant that brought death, written with words on stone, came with YAHUAH’S esteem. In fact, the face of Moses was so bright with esteem (an esteem that passes away) that the people of Israel could not continue looking at his face. 8 So surely the new Blood-Covenant that comes from the life-giving Spirit has even more esteem. 9 This is what I mean: That old Blood-Covenant judged people guilty of sin, but it had esteem. So surely the new Blood-Covenant that makes people right with YAHUAH has much greater esteem. 10 That old Blood-Covenant had esteem, but it really loses it when it’s compared to the much greater esteem of the new Blood-Covenant. 11 If the agreement that was ended came with esteem, then the new Blood-Covenant that never ends has much greater esteem.
12 We are so sure of this hope that we can speak very openly. 13 We are not like Moses, who put a veil over his face so that the people of Israel would not see it. The esteem was disappearing, and Moses did not want them to see it end. 14 But their minds were closed. And even today, when those people read the writings of the old Blood-Covenant, that same veil hides the meaning, for it has not been removed for them. The veil is only taken away through Messiah. 15 Yes, even today, when they read the Law of Moses, there is a veil over their minds. 16 But when someone repents and follows the Master, that veil is taken away. 17 The Master is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Master is, there is freedom. 18 And our faces are not veiled. We all show the Master’s esteem like a mirror, and we are being changed to be like Him. This transformation in us moves us from radiance to radiance, more and more esteem, which comes from the Master, who is the Spirit.
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