9 The system which brings condemnation was glorious; how much more glorious is the activity which brings salvation!
10 We may say that because of the far brighter glory now the glory that was so bright in the past is gone.
11 For if there was glory in that which lasted for a while, how much more glory is there in that which lasts for ever!
12 Because we have this hope, we are very bold.
13 We are not like Moses, who had to put a veil over his face so that the people of Israel would not see the brightness fade and disappear.
14 Their minds, indeed, were closed; and to this very day their minds are covered with the same veil as they read the books of the old covenant. The veil is removed only when a person is joined to Christ.
15 Even today, whenever they read the Law of Moses, the veil still covers their minds.