“Now the Lord is that Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty. But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord.”

—  Paul of Tarsus , book Second Epistle to the Corinthians

2 Corinthians 3: 17-18
Variant translations:
Jehovah is the Spirit, and where the spirit of Jehovah is, there is freedom.
2 Corinthians 3: 17 NWT
Second Epistle to the Corinthians

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