2 Corinthians 3:17
Now the Lord is a Spirit. And where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.
Douay-Rheims 1899
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 they shall be converted to the Lord, the veil shall be taken away.
Cross References
Psalms 51:12Create a clean heart in me, O God: and renew a right spirit within my bowels.
John 6:63If then you shall see the Son of man ascend up where he was before?
Romans 8:2For the law of the spirit of life, in Christ Jesus, hath delivered me from the law of sin and of death.
1 Corinthians 15:45The first man Adam was made into a living soul; the last Adam into a quickening spirit.
Galatians 4:6And because you are sons, God hath sent the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying: Abba, Father.
Galatians 5:13For you, brethren, have been called unto liberty: only make not liberty an occasion to the flesh, but by charity of the spirit serve one 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 →