2 Corinthians 3:17
Now the Lord is the Spirit; and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.
The New Testament, American Bible Union (1865)
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 whenever it turns to the Lord, the vail is taken away.
Cross References
John 6:63It is the spirit that makes alive, the flesh profits nothing; the words which I have spoken to you are spirit, and are life.
Romans 8:2For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus set me free from the law of sin and death.
1 Corinthians 15:45So also it is written: The first man Adam was made a living soul; the last Adam a life-giving spirit.
Galatians 4:6And because ye are sons, God sent forth the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, crying, Abba, Father.
Galatians 5:13For ye were called unto liberty, brethren; only use not the liberty for an occasion to the flesh, but by love 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 →