6. who made us adequate to be servants of a new covenant not based on the letter but on the Spirit, for the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.
7. But if the ministry that produced death – carved in letters on stone tablets – came with glory, so that the Israelites could not keep their eyes fixed on the face of Moses because of the glory of his face (a glory which was made ineffective),
8. how much more glorious will the ministry of the Spirit be?
9. For if there was glory in the ministry that produced condemnation, how much more does the ministry that produces righteousness excel in glory!
10. For indeed, what had been glorious now has no glory because of the tremendously greater glory of what replaced it.
11. For if what was made ineffective came with glory, how much more has what remains come in glory!
12. Therefore, since we have such a hope, we behave with great boldness,
13. and not like Moses who used to put a veil over his face to keep the Israelites from staring at the result of the glory that was made ineffective.
14. But their minds were closed. For to this very day, the same veil remains when they hear the old covenant read. It has not been removed because only in Christ is it taken away.
15. But until this very day whenever Moses is read, a veil lies over their minds,