2 Corinthians 3:16
But when it is turned to the Lord, the veil will be taken away.
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
Nevertheless when it shall turn to the Lord, the vail shall be taken away.
In Context
15But to this day, at the reading of the law of Moses, a veil is over their heart.
17Now the Lord is the Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there the heart is free.
Cross References
Exodus 34:34But whenever Moses went in before the Lord to have talk with him, he took off the veil till he came out. And whenever he came out he said to the children of Israel what he had been ordered to say;
Deuteronomy 30:10If you give ear to the voice of the Lord your God, keeping his orders and his laws which are recorded in this book of the law, and turning to the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul.
Isaiah 29:18And in that day those whose ears are stopped will be hearing the words of the book; and the eyes of the blind will see through the mist and the dark.
Jeremiah 31:34And no longer will they be teaching every man his neighbour and every man his brother, saying, Get knowledge of the Lord: for they will all have knowledge of me, from the least of them to the greatest of them, says the Lord: for they will have my forgiveness for their evil-doing, and their sin will go from my memory for ever.
Hosea 3:4For the children of Israel will for a long time be without king and without ruler, without offerings and without pillars, and without ephod or images.
Romans 11:23And they, if they do not go on without faith, will be united to the tree again, because God is able to put them in again.
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 →