@Knittinggrace May I ask a follow-up question to your exegesis? Given the full text of the verses you referenced, do you think a physical mask worn when out in public prevents us from being changed into the image of Christ, from glory to glory, by fhe Spirit if The Lord? Or might v18 be about something else?

“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.“ 2 Corinthians 3:18