2 Corinthians 3:9
For if there was glory in the ministry of condemnation, how much more does the ministry of righteousness abound in glory.
1902 William Baxter Godbey NT
In The King James Version
In Context
8how will not the ministry of the spirit be more in glory?
Cross References
Romans 3:21And now the righteousness of God without law has been made manifest, being witnessed by the law and the prophets;
Romans 5:15But not as was the transgression, even so is the free gift: for if by the transgression of one many died, how much more by the grace of one man, Jesus Christ, did the grace of God and the gift abound unto many!
Romans 10:3for being ignorant of God's righteousness, and seeking to establish their own righteousness, they have not submitted to the righteousness of God.
1 Corinthians 15:41There is one glory of the sun, and another glory of the moon, and another glory of the stars; for star differs from 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 →