2 Corinthians 3:9
For if the ministration of condemnation be glory, much more the ministration of justice aboundeth in glory.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
In Context
8How shall not the ministration of the spirit be rather in glory?
Cross References
Exodus 20:18And all the people saw the voices and the flames, and the sound of the trumpet, and the mount smoking: and being terrified and struck with fear, they stood afar off,
Jeremiah 23:6In those days shall Juda be saved, and Israel shall dwell confidently: and this is the name that they shall call him: the Lord our just one.
Romans 3:21But now without the law the justice of God is made manifest, being witnessed by the law and the prophets.
Romans 5:15But not as the offence, so also the gift. For if by the offence of one, many died; much more the grace of God, and the gift, by the grace of one man, Jesus Christ, hath abounded unto many.
Romans 10:3For they, not knowing the justice of God, and seeking to establish their own, have not submitted themselves to the justice of God.
1 Corinthians 15:41One is the glory of the sun, another the glory of the moon, and another the glory of the stars. For star differeth from star in glory.
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 →