2 Corinthians 3:16
But when they shall be converted to the Lord, the veil shall be taken away.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
Nevertheless when it shall turn to the Lord, the vail shall be taken away.
In Context
15But even until this day, when Moses is read, the veil is upon their heart.
17Now the Lord is a Spirit. And where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.
Cross References
Exodus 34:34But when he went in to the Lord, and spoke with him, he took it away until he came forth, and then he spoke to the children of Israel all things that had been commanded him.
Deuteronomy 30:10Yet so if thou hear the voice of the Lord thy God, and keep his precepts and ceremonies, which are written in this law: and return to the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul.
Isaiah 29:18And in that day the deaf shall hear the words of the book, and out of darkness and obscurity the eyes of the blind shall see.
Jeremiah 31:34But this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel, after those days, saith the Lord: I will give my law in their bowels, and I will write it in their heart: and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.
Hosea 3:4For the children of Israel shall sit many days without king, and without prince, and without sacrifice, and without altar, and without ephod, and without theraphim.
Romans 11:23And they also, if they abide not still in unbelief, shall be grafted in: for God is able to graft 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 →