2 Corinthians 3:17
But the Lord is a Spirit; and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.
1902 William Baxter Godbey NT
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 when they may turn to the Lord, the veil is taken away.
Cross References
John 6:63The Spirit is the One who creates life; the flesh profits nothing; the words which I have spoken unto you are spirit and life.
Romans 8:2For the law of the Spirit of life has made thee free from the law of sin and of death.
1 Corinthians 15:45As indeed it has been written; The first man Adam was made a living soul; the last man Adam, a life-creating spirit.
Galatians 4:6But because you are sons, God has sent forth the Spirit of his own Son into our hearts, crying, Father, Father.
Galatians 5:13For you were called unto liberty, brethren; only use not the liberty unto an occasion to the flesh, but through divine 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 →