2 Corinthians 3:17

And the ‘Lord’ is the Spirit, and, where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom.

Twentieth Century New Testament

In The King James Version

Now the Lord is that Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.

In Context

16‘Yet, whenever a man turns to the Lord, the veil is removed.’

18And all of us, with faces from which the veil is lifted, seeing, as if reflected in a mirror, the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into his likeness, from glory to glory, as it is given by the Lord, the Spirit.

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Cross References

John 6:63It is the Spirit that gives Life; mere flesh is of no avail. In the teaching that I have been giving you there is Spirit and there is Life.

Romans 8:2for through your union with Christ Jesus, the Law of the life-giving Spirit has set you free from the Law of Sin and Death.

1 Corinthians 15:45That is what is meant by the words — ‘Adam, the first man, became a human being’; the last Adam became a Life-giving spirit.

Galatians 4:6And it is because you are sons that God sent into our hearts the Spirit of his Son, with the cry — ‘Abba, our Father.’

Galatians 5:13Remember, Brothers, to you the Call came to give you freedom. Only do not make your freedom an opportunity for self-indulgence, but serve one another in a loving spirit.

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 →

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