2 Corinthians 3:18

Bible in Basic English (1941)

But we all, with unveiled face giving back as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as from the Lord who is the Spirit.

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  • 2 Cor 4:6 : 6 Seeing that it is God who said, Let light be shining out of the dark, who has put in our hearts the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.
  • Eph 4:22-24 : 22 That you are to put away, in relation to your earlier way of life, the old man, which has become evil by love of deceit; 23 And be made new in the spirit of your mind, 24 And put on the new man, to which God has given life, in righteousness and a true and holy way of living.
  • 2 Cor 4:4 : 4 Because the god of this world has made blind the minds of those who have not faith, so that the light of the good news of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, might not be shining on them.
  • Rom 12:2 : 2 And let not your behaviour be like that of this world, but be changed and made new in mind, so that by experience you may have knowledge of the good and pleasing and complete purpose of God.
  • Rom 8:29 : 29 Because those of whom he had knowledge before they came into existence, were marked out by him to be made like his Son, so that he might be the first among a band of brothers:
  • 1 Cor 13:12 : 12 For now we see things in a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now my knowledge is in part; then it will be complete, even as God's knowledge of me.
  • 1 Cor 15:49 : 49 And in the same way as we have taken on us the image of the man from the earth, so we will take on us the image of the one from heaven.
  • 2 Cor 5:17 : 17 So if any man is in Christ, he is in a new world: the old things have come to an end; they have truly become new.
  • John 17:24 : 24 Father, it is my desire that these whom you have given to me may be by my side where I am, so that they may see my glory which you have given to me, because you had love for me before the world came into being.
  • 2 Pet 1:5-9 : 5 So, for this very cause, take every care; joining virtue to faith, and knowledge to virtue, 6 And self-control to knowledge, and a quiet mind to self-control, and fear of God to a quiet mind, 7 And love of the brothers to fear of God, and to love of the brothers, love itself. 8 For if you have these things in good measure, they will make you fertile and full of fruit in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. 9 For the man who has not these things is blind, seeing only what is near, having no memory of how he was made clean from his old sins.
  • Jas 1:23 : 23 Because if any man is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man looking at his natural face in a glass;
  • John 1:14 : 14 And so the Word became flesh and took a place among us for a time; and we saw his glory--such glory as is given to an only son by his father--saw it to be true and full of grace.
  • Rom 8:7 : 7 Because the mind of the flesh is opposite to God; it is not under the law of God, and is not able to be:
  • Col 3:10 : 10 And have put on the new man, which has become new in knowledge after the image of his maker;
  • 1 Tim 1:11 : 11 Which may be seen in the good news of the glory of the great God, which was given into my care.
  • Titus 3:5 : 5 Not by works of righteousness which we did ourselves, but in the measure of his mercy, he gave us salvation, through the washing of the new birth and the giving of new life in the Holy Spirit,
  • John 12:41 : 41 (Isaiah said these words because he saw his glory. His words were about him.)
  • Rom 8:4 : 4 So that what was ordered by the law might be done in us, who are living, not in the way of the flesh, but in the way of the Spirit.
  • Rom 13:14 : 14 But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and do not give thought to the flesh to do its desires.
  • Gal 6:15 : 15 For having circumcision is nothing, and not having circumcision is nothing, but only a new order of existence.

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    6Seeing that it is God who said, Let light be shining out of the dark, who has put in our hearts the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.

    7But we have this wealth in vessels of earth, so that it may be seen that the power comes not from us but from God;

  • 1 John 3:2-3
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    2My loved ones, now we are children of God, and at present it is not clear what we are to be. We are certain that at his revelation we will be like him; for we will see him as he is.

    3And everyone who has this hope in him makes himself holy, even as he is holy.

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    6Who has made us able to be servants of a new agreement; not of the letter, but of the Spirit: for the letter gives death, but the Spirit gives life.

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    8Will not the operation of the Spirit have a much greater glory?

  • Phil 3:21
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    21By whom this poor body of ours will be changed into the image of the body of his glory, in the measure of the working by which he is able to put all things under himself.

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    12For now we see things in a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now my knowledge is in part; then it will be complete, even as God's knowledge of me.

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    16For which cause we do not give way to weariness; but though our outer man is getting feebler, our inner man is made new day by day.

    17For our present trouble, which is only for a short time, is working out for us a much greater weight of glory;

    18While our minds are not on the things which are seen, but on the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are for a time; but the things which are not seen are eternal.

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    10For the glory of the first no longer seems to be glory, because of the greater glory of that which comes after.

    11For if the order which was for a time had its glory, much more will the eternal order have its glory.

    12Having then such a hope, we keep nothing back,

    13And are not like Moses, who put a veil on his face, so that the children of Israel might not see clearly to the end of the present order of things:

    14But their minds were made hard: for to this very day at the reading of the old agreement the same veil is still unlifted; though it is taken away in Christ.

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    49And in the same way as we have taken on us the image of the man from the earth, so we will take on us the image of the one from heaven.

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    15Then let us all, who have come to full growth, be of this mind: and if in anything you are of a different mind, even this will God make clear to you:

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    2You yourselves are our letter, whose writing is in our heart, open for every man's reading and knowledge;

    3For you are clearly a letter of Christ, the fruit of our work, recorded not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; not in stone, but in hearts of flesh.

    4And this is the certain faith which we have in God through Christ:

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    2And let not your behaviour be like that of this world, but be changed and made new in mind, so that by experience you may have knowledge of the good and pleasing and complete purpose of God.

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    4Because the god of this world has made blind the minds of those who have not faith, so that the light of the good news of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, might not be shining on them.

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    4At the coming of Christ who is our life, you will be seen with him in glory.

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    23And be made new in the spirit of your mind,

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    10And have put on the new man, which has become new in knowledge after the image of his maker;

  • 1 Cor 15:51-52
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    51See, I am giving you the revelation of a secret: we will not all come to the sleep of death, but we will all be changed.

    52In a second, in the shutting of an eye, at the sound of the last horn: for at that sound the dead will come again, free for ever from the power of death, and we will be changed.

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    23And by them the glory of the eternal God was changed and made into the image of man who is not eternal, and of birds and beasts and things which go on the earth.

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    11And such were some of you; but you have been washed, you have been made holy, you have been given righteousness in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and in the Spirit of our God.

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    2And we have given up the secret things of shame, not walking in false ways, and not making use of the word of God with deceit; but by the revelation of what is true, as before God, we have the approval of every man's sense of right and wrong.

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    27To whom God was pleased to give knowledge of the wealth of the glory of this secret among the Gentiles, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory:

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    17For we are not like the great number who make use of the word of God for profit: but our words are true, as from God, being said as before God in Christ.

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    23Because if any man is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man looking at his natural face in a glass;

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    4For truly, we who are in this tent do give out cries of weariness, for the weight of care which is on us; not because we are desiring to be free from the body, but so that we may have our new body, and death may be overcome by life.

    5Now he who has made us for this very thing is God, who has given us the Spirit as a witness of what is to come.

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    7(For we are walking by faith, not by seeing,)

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    12For our glory is in this, in the knowledge which we have that our way of life in the world, and most of all in relation to you, has been holy and true in the eyes of God; not in the wisdom of the flesh, but in the grace of God.

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    31So that, as it is said in the holy Writings, Whoever has a desire for glory, let his glory be in the Lord.

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    7Give attention to the things which are before you. If any man seems to himself to be Christ's, let him keep in mind that we are as much Christ's as he is.

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    16Do you not see that you are God's holy house, and that the Spirit of God has his place in you?