2 Corinthians 3:9
For if the administration of condemnation has glory, the administration of righteousness excels much more in glory.
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8how will the administration of the spirit not be more in glory?
Cross References
Exodus 20:18And all the people perceived the thunderings, and the lightnings, and the voice of the trumpet, and the mountain smoking. And when the people saw it, they trembled, and stood afar off.
Jeremiah 23:6In his days Judah shall be saved, and Israel shall dwell safely. And this is his name by which he shall be called: LORD our righteousness.
Romans 3:21But now a righteousness of God has been manifested independent of law, being witnessed by the law and the prophets.
Romans 5:15But in this way also, the gift is not as the transgression. For if by the trespass of the one man the many died, much more the grace of God, and the gift in grace of the one man, Jesus Christ, abounded for the many.
Romans 10:3For not understanding the righteousness of God, and seeking to establish their own righteousness, they did not submit to the righteousness of God.
1 Corinthians 15:41another glory is of the sun, and another glory of the moon, and another glory of the stars, for star differs from star in glory.
Matthew Henry on 2 Corinthians 3:7-12
Law and Gospel Compared. ( a. d. 57.) 6 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. 7 But if the ministration of death, written and engraven in stones, was glorious, so that the children of Israel could not stedfastly behold the face of Moses for the glory of his countenance; which glory was to be done away: 8 How shall not the ministration of the spirit be rather glorious? 9 For if the ministration of… Read the whole commentary →