2 Corinthians 3:8

will not the religion that confers the Spirit have still greater glory?

Twentieth Century New Testament

In The King James Version

How shall not the ministration of the spirit be rather glorious?

In Context

7If the system of religion which involved Death, embodied in a written Law and engraved on stones, began amid such glory, that the Israelites were unable to gaze at the face of Moses on account of its glory, though it was but a passing glory,

9For, if there was a glory in the religion that involved condemnation, far greater is the glory of the religion that confers righteousness!

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Cross References

John 7:39(By this he meant the Spirit, which those who had believed in him were to receive; for the Spirit had not yet come, because Jesus had not yet been exalted.)

Acts 2:32It was this Jesus, whom God raised to life; and of that we are ourselves all witnesses.

1 Corinthians 3:16Do not you know that you are God’s Temple, and that God’s Spirit has his home in you?

2 Corinthians 3:6our fitness comes from God, who himself made us fit to be ministers of a New Covenant, of which the substance is, not a written Law, but a Spirit. For the written Law means Death, but the Spirit gives Life.

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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