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2 Corinthians 3 Bible study: With unveiled face

In 2 Corinthians 3 the WEB's letter stands for two Greek words: the readers are "a letter of Christ" (3:3), and "the letter kills" (3:6). And the chapter that tells of Moses' veil (3:13) ends with "we all, with unveiled face" (3:18).

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“But we all, with unveiled face seeing the glory of the Lord as in a mirror, are transformed into the same image from glory to glory, even as from the Lord, the Spirit.”
2 Corinthians 3:18 · World English Bible

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“2 Corinthians 3:18 speaks of ‘we all, with unveiled face’.”

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You are our letter

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The chapter opens with two questions: "Are we beginning again to commend ourselves? Or do we need, as do some, letters of commendation to you or from you?" (3:1) (tap commendation). Then it says, "You are our letter, written in our hearts, known and read by all men, being revealed that you are a letter of Christ, served by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; not in tablets of stone, but in tablets that are hearts of flesh." (3:2-3) (tap letter, ink). The we and us are the letter's own: it opens with two senders, "Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus through the will of God, and Timothy our brother" (1:1). The chapter doesn't say who the some of 3:1 are, and it names no passage behind tablets of stone or hearts of flesh (3:3). Other chapters of Favor that set 3:3 beside the stone tablets of Exodus are named under Go deeper.

Where the Old Testament leads here

The veil taken away in Christ

In the text

Exodus 34:33leads to2 Corinthians 3:14-16

"When Moses was done speaking with them, he put a veil on his face" (34:33). Paul points to this chapter: "not as Moses, who put a veil on his face" (2 Corinthians 3:13). He writes that "until this very day at the reading of the old covenant the same veil remains, because in Christ it passes away" (2 Corinthians 3:14), and "whenever someone turns to the Lord, the veil is taken away" (2 Corinthians 3:16).

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The Greek word behind it

κάλυμαkalymasay KAL-oo-mah

Strong's: "a cover, i.e. veil", and it gives the word as formed from kalypto (G2572). "not as Moses, who put a veil on his face" (3:13); then the same veil (3:14), a veil (3:15) and the veil (3:16). The New Testament has the word four times (counted in RP2018; in all eight editions TAGNT compares), all in this chapter. Behind unveiled in "with unveiled face" (3:18) is a related verb, anakalypto (G343), which Strong's gives as formed from G303 and G2572. Favor's Exodus 34 studies the Hebrew word behind Moses' veil there.

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2 Corinthians 3 Bible study questions

  1. 1"You are our letter, written in our hearts, known and read by all men" (3:2). Whose life has been like a letter to you, showing you something of Christ?
  2. 2"not that we are sufficient of ourselves to account anything as from ourselves; but our sufficiency is from God" (3:5). Where in an ordinary week does it help you to remember that?
  3. 3"But we all, with unveiled face seeing the glory of the Lord" (3:18). What has helped you see something of the glory of the Lord lately?

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Last reviewed October 8, 2026. Scripture quotations are from the World English Bible, which is in the public domain. Hebrew and Greek words are checked against the original-language texts and public-domain lexicons. What we believe · Favor home