---
title: Joseph Smith Translation (1867 edition)
description: 2 Corinthians from the Joseph Smith Translation (JST), 1867 edition.
authors:
  - Smith, Joseph, Jr.
collections:
  - joseph-smith
tags:
  - translation
published: "1867"
publisher: RLDS Publication Board
publisher_place: Plano, Illinois
publisher_note: "The title page reads: Published by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints; Joseph Smith, I. L. Rogers, E. Robinson, Publishing Committee; 1867."
edition: First edition (Plano, 1867)
language: en
type: book
chapter: 3
verse_count: 18
reference: "Joseph Smith Jr., *Joseph Smith Translation*, first edition (Plano, IL: RLDS Publication Board, 1867), 2 Corinthians, chap. 3, https://archive.org/details/holyscripturestr00smituoft."
source:
  url: https://archive.org/details/holyscripturestr00smituoft
  identifier: holyscripturestr00smituoft
  scan: University of Toronto / Trinity College Library copy, Internet Archive
  transcription: "OCR text of the 1867 scans (Toronto copy and a second copy, holyscriptures00smit), reconciled word by word; Romans was also checked against the page images. Method, per-chapter validation log and known limits: docs/jst-1867-import.md."
rights:
  status: public-domain
  basis: 1867 US publication
  source: https://archive.org/details/holyscripturestr00smituoft
  publication_year: 1867
---

# 2 Corinthians 3

*Office work of the Spirit— — The Spirit, liberty.*

**1** Do we begin again to commend ourselves? or need we, as some others, epistles of commendation to you, or letters of commendation from you?
**2** Ye are our epistle written in our hearts, known and read of all men;
**3** Forasmuch as ye are manifestly declared to be the 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 fleshly tables of the heart.
**4** And such trust have we through Christ toward God.
**5** Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think anything as of ourselves; but our sufficiency is of God;
**6** Who also hath made us able ministers of the new testament; not of the letter, but of the Spirit; for the letter killeth, but the Spirit giveth life.
**7** But if the ministration of death, written and engraven in stones, was glorious, so that the children of Israel could not steadfastly behold the face of Moses for the glory of his countenance; which glory was to be done away;
**8** How shall not the ministration of the Spirit be rather glorious?
**9** For if the ministration of condemnation be glory, much more doth the ministration of righteousness exceed in glory.
**10** For even that which was made glorious had no glory in this respect, II. CORINTHIANS. by reason of the glory that excelleth.
**11** For if that which is done away was glorious, much more that which remaineth is glorious.
**12** Seeing then that we have such hope, we use great plainness of speech;
**13** And not as Moses, which put a veil over his face, that the children of Israel could not steadfastly look to the end of that which is abolished;
**14** But their minds were blinded; for until this day remaineth the same veil untaken away the reading of the old testament; which veil is done away in Christ.
**15** But even unto this day, when Moses is read, the veil is upon their heart.
**16** Nevertheless, when their heart shall turn to the Lord, the veil shall be taken away.
**17** Now the Lord is that Spirit; and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.
**18** But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord.