2 Corinthians 3:9

For if the service which pronounces doom had glory, far more glorious still is the service which tells of righteousness.

Weymouth NT (1912)

In The King James Version

For if the ministration of condemnation be glory, much more doth the ministration of righteousness exceed in glory.

In Context

8will not the service of the Spirit be far more glorious?

10For, in fact, that which was once resplendent in glory has no glory at all in this respect, that it pales before the glory which surpasses it.

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Cross References

Romans 3:21But now a righteousness coming from God has been brought to light apart from any Law, both Law and Prophets bearing witness to it--

Romans 5:15But God's free gift immeasurably outweighs the transgression. For if through the transgression of the one individual the mass of mankind have died, infinitely greater is the generosity with which God's grace, and the gift given in His grace which found expression in the one man Jesus Christ, have been bestowed on the mass of mankind.

Romans 10:3Ignorant of the righteousness which God provides and building their hopes upon a righteousness of their own, they have refused submission to God's righteousness.

1 Corinthians 15:41There is one glory of the sun, another of the moon, and another 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 →

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