2 Corinthians 3:16
But whenever someone turns to the Lord, the veil is taken away.
World English Bible
In The King James Version
Nevertheless when it shall turn to the Lord, the vail shall be taken away.
In Context
15But to this day, when Moses is read, a veil lies on their heart.
17Now the Lord is the Spirit; and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.
Cross References
Exodus 34:34But when Moses went in before the LORD to speak with him, he took the veil off, until he came out; and he came out, and spoke to the children of Israel that which he was commanded.
Deuteronomy 30:10if you will obey the LORD your God’s voice, to keep his commandments and his statutes which are written in this book of the law, if you turn to the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul.
Isaiah 29:18In that day, the deaf will hear the words of the book, and the eyes of the blind will see out of obscurity and out of darkness.
Jeremiah 31:34They will no longer each teach his neighbor, and every man teach his brother, saying, ‘Know the LORD;’ for they will all know me, from their least to their greatest,” says the LORD, “for I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more.”
Hosea 3:4For the children of Israel shall live many days without king, without prince, without sacrifice, without sacred stone, and without ephod or idols.
Romans 11:23They also, if they don’t continue in their unbelief, will 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 →