12Therefore, since we have such hope,^* we act very boldly 13and not like Moses,^* who put a veil over his face so that the Israelites could not look intently at the cessation of what was fading. 14Rather, their thoughts were rendered dull, for to this present day^* the same veil remains unlifted when they read the old covenant, because through Christ it is taken away. 15To this day, in fact, whenever Moses is read, a veil lies over their hearts,^f 16but whenever a person turns to the Lord the veil is removed.^g 17Now the Lord is the Spirit,^* and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom. 18^* All of us, gazing with unveiled face on the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory, as from the Lord who is the Spirit.^h