2 Corinthians 3:9
For if the ministry of condemnation had glory, far more is the ministry of righteousness radiant in glory.
Montgomery New Testament
In The King James Version
In Context
8how much more shall the ministry of the Spirit abide in glory?
10Indeed that which once was glorious has lost its glory, because of the glory which surpasses it.
Cross References
Romans 3:21But now, quite apart from any law, a righteousness coming from God has been fully brought to light, continually witnessed to by the Law and the Prophets.
Romans 5:15But the free gift is not like the transgression; for if through the transgression of that one man the rest on men died, much more did the grace of God and the gift given in his grace in the one Man, Jesus Christ, overflow unto the rest of men.
Romans 10:3For because they were ignorant of God’s righteousness, and sought to establish their own righteousness, they did not submit themselves to the righteousness of God.
1 Corinthians 15:41There is one glory of the sun, another of the moon, and another 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 →