2 Corinthians 3:17
Now the Lord himself is the Spirit. And where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom.
James Murdock's Translation of the Syriac Peshitta
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 any of them is turned unto the Lord, the vail is taken from him.
Cross References
John 6:63It is the Spirit that vivifieth; the body profiteth nothing. The words which I have used with you, they are spirit, and they are life.
Romans 8:2For the law of the spirit of life, which is in Jesus Messiah, hath emancipated thee from the law of sin and death.
1 Corinthians 15:45So also is it written: " Adam, the first man, became a living soul;" the second Adam became a quickening spirit.
Galatians 4:6And, because ye are sons, God hath sent forth the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, who crieth, Father, our Father.
Galatians 5:13And ye, my brethren, have been called into liberty: only let not your liberty be an occasion to the flesh; but, by love, be ye servants to each other.
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 →