2 Corinthians 3:6

who has also made us competent, [as] ministers of [the] new covenant; not of letter, but of spirit. For the letter kills, but the Spirit quickens.

Darby Translation

In The King James Version

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.

In Context

5not that we are competent of ourselves to think anything as of ourselves, but our competency [is] of God;

7(But if the ministry of death, in letters, graven in stones, began with glory, so that the children of Israel could not fix their eyes on the face of Moses, on account of the glory of his face, [a glory] which is annulled;

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 27:26Cursed be he that confirmeth not the words of this law to do them! And all the people shall say, Amen.

Matthew 13:52And he said to them, For this reason every scribe discipled to the kingdom of the heavens is like a man [that is] a householder who brings out of his treasure things new and old.

Mark 14:24And he said to them, This is my blood, that of the [new] covenant, that shed for many.

John 5:21For even as the Father raises the dead and quickens [them], thus the Son also quickens whom he will:

Romans 1:5by whom we have received grace and apostleship in behalf of his name, for obedience of faith among all the nations,

Romans 3:20Wherefore by works of law no flesh shall be justified before him; for by law [is] knowledge of sin.

Matthew Henry on 2 Corinthians 3:2-6

Apology for Seeming Self-Commendation. ( a. d. 57.) 1 Do we begin again to commend ourselves? or need we, as some others, epistles of commendation to you, or letters of commendation from you? 2 Ye are our epistle written in our hearts, known and read of all men: 3 Forasmuch as ye are manifestly declared to be the epistle of Christ ministered by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; not in tables of stone, but in fleshy tables of the heart. 4 And such trust have we through Christ to… Read the whole commentary →

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