2 Corinthians 3:6

who also made us sufficient [to be] ministrants of a new covenant, not of letter, but of spirit; for the letter doth kill, and the spirit doth make alive.

Young's Literal Translation

In The King James Version

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.

In Context

5not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think anything, as of ourselves, but our sufficiency [is] of God,

7and if the ministration of the death, in letters, engraved in stones, came in glory, so that the sons of Israel were not able to look stedfastly to the face of Moses, because of the glory of his face — which was being made useless,

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 27:26'Cursed [is] he who doth not establish the words of this law, to do them, — and all the people have said, Amen.

Matthew 13:52And he said to them, 'Because of this every scribe having been discipled in regard to the reign of the heavens, is like to a man, a householder, who doth bring forth out of his treasure things new and old.'

Mark 14:24and he said to them, 'This is my blood of the new covenant, which for many is being poured out;

John 5:21'For, as the Father doth raise the dead, and doth make alive, so also the Son doth make alive whom he willeth;

Romans 1:5through whom we did receive grace and apostleship, for obedience of faith among all the nations, in behalf of his name;

Romans 3:20wherefore by works of law shall no flesh be declared righteous before Him, for through law is a knowledge of sin.

Matthew Henry on 2 Corinthians 3:2-6

Apology for Seeming Self-Commendation. ( a. d. 57.) 1 Do we begin again to commend ourselves? or need we, as some others, epistles of commendation to you, or letters of commendation from you? 2 Ye are our epistle written in our hearts, known and read of all men: 3 Forasmuch as ye are manifestly declared to be the epistle of Christ ministered by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; not in tables of stone, but in fleshy tables of the heart. 4 And such trust have we through Christ to… Read the whole commentary →

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