2 Corinthians 3:17
Now the Lord is the Spirit; and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.
Henry Tompkins Anderson’s 1864 New Testament
In The King James Version
Now the Lord is that Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.
In Context
16but whenever their heart shall turn to the Lord, the vail shall be taken away.
Cross References
John 6:63It is the spirit that makes alive; the flesh profits nothing; the words that I speak to you are spirit and life.
Romans 8:2For the law of the spirit of life in Christ Jesus has freed me from the law of sin, and of death.
1 Corinthians 15:45So, also, it is written: The first man Adam became a living soul, the last Adam a life-giving spirit.
Galatians 4:6And because you are sons, God has sent forth the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, Abba, Father.
Galatians 5:13For you have been called to freedom, brethren: only use not your freedom as an occasion for the flesh, but become servants to one another, through love.
Matthew Henry on 2 Corinthians 3:13-18
Superiority of the Gospel. ( a. d. 57.) 12 Seeing then that we have such hope, we use great plainness of speech: 13 And not as Moses, which put a vail over his face, that the children of Israel could not stedfastly look to the end of that which is abolished: 14 But their minds were blinded: for until this day remaineth the same vail untaken away in the reading of the old testament; which vail is done away in Christ. 15 But even unto this day, when Moses is read, the vail is upon their heart. 16 Nevertheless when… Read the whole commentary →