2 Corinthians 3:17

Now the Lord is the Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there the heart is free.

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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 when it is turned to the Lord, the veil will be taken away.

18But we all, with unveiled face giving back as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as from the Lord who is the Spirit.

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Cross References

Psalms 51:12\51:10\Make a clean heart in me, O God; give me a right spirit again.

John 6:63The spirit is the life giver; the flesh is of no value: the words which I have said to you are spirit and they are life.

Romans 8:2For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has made me free from the law of sin and death.

1 Corinthians 15:45And so it is said, The first man Adam was a living soul. The last Adam is a life-giving spirit.

Galatians 4:6And because you are sons, God has sent out the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, saying, Abba, Father.

Galatians 5:13Because you, brothers, were marked out to be free; only do not make use of your free condition to give the flesh its chance, but through love be servants one to another.

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 →

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