2 Corinthians 3:15-18

3:15 But until this very day whenever Moses is read, a veil lies over their minds, ¹  3:16 but when one ²  turns to the Lord, the veil is removed. ³  3:17 Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is present, ⁴  there is freedom. 3:18 And we all, with unveiled faces reflecting the glory of the Lord, ⁵  are being transformed into the same image from one degree of glory to another, ⁶  which is from ⁷  the Lord, who is the Spirit. ⁸ 

[3:15]  ¹ tn Grk “their heart.”

[3:16]  ² tn Or perhaps “when(ever) he turns,” referring to Moses.

[3:16]  ³ sn An allusion to Exod 34:34. The entire verse may refer to Moses, viewing him as a type portraying the Jewish convert to Christianity in Paul’s day.

[3:17]  ⁴ tn Grk “where the Spirit of the Lord is”; the word “present” is supplied to specify that the presence of the Lord’s Spirit is emphasized rather than the mere existence of the Lord’s Spirit.

[3:18]  ⁵ tn Or “we all with unveiled faces beholding the glory of the Lord as in a mirror.”

[3:18]  ⁶ tn Grk “from glory to glory.”

[3:18]  ⁷ tn Grk “just as from.”

[3:18]  ⁸ tn Grk “from the Lord, the Spirit”; the genitive πνεύματος (pneumato") has been translated as a genitive of apposition.