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2 Corinthians 3:6

Who has also made us able ministers of a new covenant; not of the letter, but of the spirit: for the letter kills, but the spirit gives life.

Revised King James 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 in ourselves to claim anything as coming from ourselves; but our sufficiency is from God;

7For if the ministry of death, written and engraved in stone, was glorious, so that the children of Israel could not steadfastly behold the face of Moses because of the glory of his countenance; and that glory fading:

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Cross References

Matthew 13:52Then he said to them, Therefore every scribe who is instructed about the kingdom of heaven is like a man who is an owner of a house, who brings forth out of his treasure things new and old.

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

John 5:21For as the Father raises up the dead, and gives them life; even so the Son gives life to whom he will.

Romans 1:5By whom we have received grace and apostleship, to bring about the obedience of faith among all the nations, for his name's sake;

Romans 3:20Therefore, by the works of the law no flesh shall be justified in his sight: for through the law comes 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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