2 Corinthians 3:9
For if the ministry of condemnation had glory, far more does the ministry of righteousness exceed it in glory.
Revised King James New Testament
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In Context
8Shall not the ministry of the spirit be even more glorious?
10For even that which was glorious no longer has glory, because of the glory that surpasses it.
Cross References
Romans 3:21But now the righteousness of God apart from the law has been manifested, though it is witnessed to by the law and the prophets;
Romans 5:15But the free gift is not like the offence. For if through the offence of the one many died, how much more did the grace of God, and the gift that came by the grace of the one man, Jesus Christ, overflow to many.
Romans 10:3For being ignorant of God's righteousness, and seeking to establish their own, they have not submitted themselves to the righteousness of God.
1 Corinthians 15:41There is one glory of the sun, and another glory of the moon, and another glory 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 →