2 Corinthians 3:9

For if the ministringe of condempnacion be glorious: moche more do the the ministracion of rightewesnes excede in glory.

Tyndale New Testament

In The King James Version

For if the ministration of condemnation be glory, much more doth the ministration of righteousness exceed in glory.

In Context

8why shall not the ministracion of the sprete be moche more glorious?

10For no dout that which was there glorified is not once glorified in respecte of this excedynge glory.

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Cross References

Romans 3:21Now verely is the rightewesnes that cometh of God declared without the fulfillinge of the lawe havinge witnes yet of the lawe and of the Prophetes.

Romans 5:15But the gyfte is not lyke as the synne. For yf thorow the synne of one many be deed: moche more plenteous vpon many was the grace of God and gyfte by grace: which grace was geven by one man Iesus Christ.

Romans 10:3For they are ignoraunt of the rightewesnes which is alowed before God and goo about to stablisshe their awne rightewesnes and therfore are not obedient vnto the rightewesnes which is of valew before God.

1 Corinthians 15:41Ther is one maner glory of the sonne and another glory of the mone and another glory of the starres. For one starre differth from another 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 →

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