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2 Corinthians 3:6

who also made us qualified helpers of a new covenant, not of a document, but of a spirit, for the document kills but the spirit makes alive.

A Conservative Version

In The King James Version

Who also hath made us able ministers of the new testament; not of the letter, but of the spirit: for the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life.

In Context

5not that we are sufficient of ourselves to reckon anything as from ourselves, but our sufficiency is from God,

7But if the administration of death in writings engraved on stones occurred in glory, so that the sons of Israel could not gaze upon the face of Moses because of the fading glory of his countenance,

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 27:26Cursed is every man who does not continue in all (LXX/NT) the words of this law to do them. And all the people shall say, Amen.

Matthew 13:52And he said to them, Because of this every scholar who has been instructed in the kingdom of the heavens is like a man, a house-ruler, who brings forth out of his treasure things new and old.

Mark 14:24And he said to them, This is my blood of the new covenant, which is poured out for many.

John 5:21For as the Father raises up the dead and makes alive, so also the Son makes alive whom he will.

Romans 1:5through whom we received grace and apostleship for obedience of faith among all the nations on behalf of his name,

Romans 3:20Because from works of law no flesh will be made right before him, for through law is knowledge of sin.

Matthew Henry on 2 Corinthians 3:2-6

Apology for Seeming Self-Commendation. ( a. d. 57.) 1 Do we begin again to commend ourselves? or need we, as some others, epistles of commendation to you, or letters of commendation from you? 2 Ye are our epistle written in our hearts, known and read of all men: 3 Forasmuch as ye are manifestly declared to be the epistle of Christ ministered by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; not in tables of stone, but in fleshy tables of the heart. 4 And such trust have we through Christ to… Read the whole commentary →

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