2 Corinthians 3:9

For if there was glory in the ministration of condemnation, how much more shall the ministration of justification excel in glory?

James Murdock's Translation of the Syriac Peshitta

In The King James Version

For if the ministration of condemnation be glory, much more doth the ministration of righteousness exceed in glory.

In Context

8how then shall not the ministration of the Spirit be still more glorious?

10For that which was glorious, was as if not glorious, in comparison with this which excelleth in glory.

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Cross References

Romans 3:21But now, the righteousness of God without the law, is manifested; and the law and the prophets testify of it:

Romans 5:15But not, as the fault, so also the free gift. For if, on account of the fault of one, many died; how much more, will the grace of God and his free gift, on account of one man, Jesus Messiah, abound unto many?

Romans 10:3For they know not the righteousness of God, but seek to establish their own righteousness: and therefore they have not submitted themselves to the righteousness of God.

1 Corinthians 15:41And the glory of the sun is one thing, and the glory of the moon is another, and the glory of the stars is another; and one star exceedeth another 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 →

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