2 Corinthians 3:16
But whensoever it shall turn to the Lord, the veil is taken away.
Revised Version 1895
In The King James Version
Nevertheless when it shall turn to the Lord, the vail shall be taken away.
In Context
15But unto this day, whensoever Moses is read, a veil lieth upon their heart.
17Now the Lord is the Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.
Cross References
Exodus 34:34But when Moses went in before the LORD to speak with him, he took the veil off, until he came out; and he came out, and spake unto the children of Israel that which he was commanded;
Deuteronomy 30:10if thou shalt obey the voice of the LORD thy God, to keep his commandments and his statutes which are written in this book of the law; if thou turn unto the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul.
Isaiah 29:18And in that day shall the deaf hear the words of the book, and the eyes of the blind shall see out of obscurity and out of darkness.
Jeremiah 31:34and they shall teach no more every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the LORD: for they shall all know me, from the least of them unto the greatest of them, saith the LORD: for I will forgive their iniquity, and their sin will I remember no more.
Hosea 3:4For the children of Israel shall abide many days without king, and without prince, and without sacrifice, and without pillar, and without ephod or teraphim.
Romans 11:23And they also, if they continue not in their unbelief, shall be grafted in: for God is able to graft them in again.
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 →