2 Corinthians 3:11

New English Translation

For if what was made ineffective came with glory, how much more has what remains come in glory!

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For indeed, what had been glorious now has no glory because of the tremendously greater glory of what replaced it.

Therefore, since we have such a hope, we behave with great boldness,

Therefore, since we have this ministry, just as God has shown us mercy, we do not become discouraged.

When he speaks of a new covenant, he makes the first obsolete. Now what is growing obsolete and aging is about to disappear.