2 Corinthians 3:9
For if the ministry of condemnation was glorious, how much more doth not the ministry of justification excel in glory?
The Peschito Syriac New Testament: Translated into English by John Wesley Etheridge
In The King James Version
In Context
8how much more then doth not the ministry Of the Spirit excel in glory?
10For that which was glorified had no glory, in comparison of this excelling glory.
Cross References
Romans 3:21But now, without the law the righteousness of Aloha is revealed, and the law and the prophets (themselves) testify of it.
Romans 5:15But not as was the fall, so is the gift; for if, on account of the fall of one, many died, how much more the grace of Aloha, and his gift, for the sake of one man, Jeshu Meshiha, in many will abound?
Romans 10:3But the righteousness of Aloha they know not, but seek the righteousness of themselves to establish, and on this account to the righteousness of Aloha they have not become subject.
1 Corinthians 15:41There is one glory of the sun, and another glory of the moon, and another glory of the stars; and star excelleth 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 →