2 Corinthians 3:17
(The Lord means the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord abides there is freedom.)
Montgomery New Testament
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 their heart turns to our Lord the veil is stripped away.
Cross References
John 6:63"The spirit is what gives life; the flesh is of no avail. The words which I have been speaking to you, are spirit and are life.
Romans 8:2for the law of the spirit of life in Christ Jesus has set me free from the law of sin and of death.
1 Corinthians 15:45Thus it is written. The first man, Adam, became a living being, the last Adam, a life-giving Spirit.
Galatians 4:6And because you are sons, God sent forth the spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, "Dear, dear Father!"
Galatians 5:13For you, brothers, were called for freedom; only do not make your freedom an excuse for self-indulgence, but in love enslave yourselves to 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 →