2 Corinthians 3:9
For if the operation of the law, producing punishment, had its glory, how much greater will be the operation of the Spirit causing righteousness?
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8Will not the operation of the Spirit have a much greater glory?
Cross References
Exodus 20:18And all the people were watching the thunderings and the flames and the sound of the horn and the mountain smoking; and when they saw it, they kept far off, shaking with fear.
Jeremiah 23:6In his days Judah will have salvation and Israel will be living without fear: and this is the name by which he will be named, The Lord is our righteousness.
Romans 3:21But now without the law there is a revelation of the righteousness of God, to which witness is given by the law and the prophets;
Romans 5:15But the free giving of God is not like the wrongdoing of man. For if, by the wrongdoing of one man death came to numbers of men, much more did the grace of God, and the free giving by the grace of one man, Jesus Christ, come to men.
Romans 10:3Because, not having knowledge of God's righteousness, and desiring to give effect to their righteousness, they have not put themselves under the righteousness of God.
1 Corinthians 15:41There is one glory of the sun, and another glory of the moon, and another glory of the stars; for the glory of one star is different from that of another.
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 →