2 Corinthians 3:6

Who hath made us also able ministers of the new testament, not of the letter but of the spirit; for the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life.

Thomas Haweis 1795 New Testament

In The King James Version

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.

In Context

5not that we are sufficient of ourselves to account any thing of ourselves, but our sufficiency is of God.

7For if the ministry of death in letters graven on stone, was attended with glory, so that the children of Israel could not keep their eyes fixed upon the countenance of Moses, because of the glory of his countenance, though soon evanescent;

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Cross References

Matthew 13:52They say unto him, Yes, Lord. Then said he unto them, Therefore every scribe instructed unto the kingdom of heaven, is like unto a man, the master of a family, who bringeth out of his storehouse things new and old.

Mark 14:24And he said unto them, This is my blood of the new testament, which is shed for many.

John 5:21For as the Father raiseth the dead, and quickeneth them; so also doth the Son quicken whom he pleases.

Romans 1:5through whom we have received grace and apostolic mission among all nations for his name, to bring them to the obedience of faith:

Romans 3:20Wherefore by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified before God: for by the law is the knowledge of sin.

Matthew Henry on 2 Corinthians 3:2-6

Apology for Seeming Self-Commendation. ( a. d. 57.) 1 Do we begin again to commend ourselves? or need we, as some others, epistles of commendation to you, or letters of commendation from you? 2 Ye are our epistle written in our hearts, known and read of all men: 3 Forasmuch as ye are manifestly declared to be the epistle of Christ ministered by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; not in tables of stone, but in fleshy tables of the heart. 4 And such trust have we through Christ to… Read the whole commentary →

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