2 Corinthians 3:7

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2 Corinthians 3:5–9 · Berean Standard Bible

5 Not that we are competent in ourselves to claim that anything comes from us, but our competence comes from God.

6 And He has qualified us as ministers of a new covenant, not of the letter but of the Spirit; for the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.

7 Now if the ministry of death, which was engraved in letters on stone, came with such glory that the Israelites could not gaze at the face of Moses because of its fleeting glory,

8 will not the ministry of the Spirit be even more glorious?

9 For if the ministry of condemnation was glorious, how much more glorious is the ministry of righteousness!

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2 Corinthians 3:6

And He has qualified us as ministers of a new covenant, not of the letter but of the Spirit; for the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.

2 Corinthians 3:9

For if the ministry of condemnation was glorious, how much more glorious is the ministry of righteousness!

Romans 7:10

So I discovered that the very commandment that was meant to bring life actually brought death.

2 Corinthians 3:3

It is clear that you are a letter from Christ, the result of our ministry, written not with ink but with the Spirit of the living God, not on tablets of stone but on tablets of human hearts.

Exodus 24:12

Then the LORD said to Moses, “Come up to Me on the mountain and stay here, so that I may give you the tablets of stone, with the law and commandments I have written for their instruction.”

Exodus 31:18

When the LORD had finished speaking with Moses on Mount Sinai, He gave him the two tablets of the Testimony, tablets of stone inscribed by the finger of God.

Exodus 32:15

Then Moses turned and went down the mountain with the two tablets of the Testimony in his hands. They were inscribed on both sides, front and back.

Exodus 32:16

The tablets were the work of God, and the writing was the writing of God, engraved on the tablets.

Exodus 32:19

As Moses approached the camp and saw the calf and the dancing, he burned with anger and threw the tablets out of his hands, shattering them at the base of the mountain.

Exodus 34:1

Then the LORD said to Moses, “Chisel out two stone tablets like the originals, and I will write on them the words that were on the first tablets, which you broke.

Exodus 34:28

So Moses was there with the LORD forty days and forty nights without eating bread or drinking water. He wrote on the tablets the words of the covenant—the Ten Commandments.

Deuteronomy 4:13

He declared to you His covenant, which He commanded you to follow—the Ten Commandments that He wrote on two tablets of stone.

Deuteronomy 5:22

The LORD spoke these commandments in a loud voice to your whole assembly out of the fire, the cloud, and the deep darkness on the mountain; He added nothing more. And He wrote them on two tablets of stone and gave them to me.

Deuteronomy 9:9

When I went up on the mountain to receive the tablets of stone, the tablets of the covenant that the LORD made with you, I stayed on the mountain forty days and forty nights. I ate no bread and drank no water.

Deuteronomy 9:10

Then the LORD gave me the two stone tablets, inscribed by the finger of God with the exact words that the LORD spoke to you out of the fire on the mountain on the day of the assembly.

Deuteronomy 9:11

And at the end of forty days and forty nights, the LORD gave me the two stone tablets, the tablets of the covenant.

Deuteronomy 9:15

So I went back down the mountain while it was blazing with fire, with the two tablets of the covenant in my hands.

Deuteronomy 10:1

At that time the LORD said to me, “Chisel out two stone tablets like the originals, come up to Me on the mountain, and make an ark of wood.

Deuteronomy 10:2

And I will write on the tablets the words that were on the first tablets, which you broke; and you are to place them in the ark.”

Deuteronomy 10:3

So I made an ark of acacia wood, chiseled out two stone tablets like the originals, and went up the mountain with the two tablets in my hands.

Deuteronomy 10:4

And the LORD wrote on the tablets what had been written previously, the Ten Commandments that He had spoken to you on the mountain out of the fire on the day of the assembly. The LORD gave them to me,

Hebrews 9:4

containing the golden altar of incense and the gold-covered ark of the covenant. Inside the ark were the gold jar of manna, Aaron’s staff that had budded, and the stone tablets of the covenant.

Deuteronomy 4:8

And what nation is great enough to have righteous statutes and ordinances like this entire law I set before you today?

Nehemiah 9:13

You came down on Mount Sinai and spoke with them from heaven. You gave them just ordinances, true laws, and good statutes and commandments.

Psalms 19:7

The Law of the LORD is perfect, reviving the soul; the testimony of the LORD is trustworthy, making wise the simple.

Psalms 19:8

The precepts of the LORD are right, bringing joy to the heart; the commandments of the LORD are radiant, giving light to the eyes.

Psalms 119:97

Oh, how I love Your law! All day long it is my meditation.

Psalms 119:127

Therefore I love Your commandments more than gold, even the purest gold.

Psalms 119:128

Therefore I admire all Your precepts and hate every false way.

Psalms 119:174

I long for Your salvation, O LORD, and Your law is my delight.

Romans 7:12

So then, the law is holy, and the commandment is holy, righteous, and good.

Romans 7:13

Did that which is good, then, become death to me? Certainly not! But in order that sin might be exposed as sin, it produced death in me through what was good, so that through the commandment sin might become utterly sinful.

Romans 7:14

We know that the law is spiritual; but I am unspiritual, sold as a slave to sin.

Romans 7:22

For in my inner being I delight in God’s law.

Genesis 3:21

And the LORD God made garments of skin for Adam and his wife, and He clothed them.

Exodus 34:29

And when Moses came down from Mount Sinai with the two tablets of the Testimony in his hands, he was unaware that his face had become radiant from speaking with the LORD.

Exodus 34:30

Aaron and all the Israelites looked at Moses, and behold, his face was radiant. And they were afraid to approach him.

Exodus 34:31

But Moses called out to them; so Aaron and all the leaders of the congregation returned to him, and Moses spoke to them.

Exodus 34:32

And after this all the Israelites came near, and Moses commanded them to do everything that the LORD had told him on Mount Sinai.

Exodus 34:33

When Moses had finished speaking with them, he put a veil over his face.

Exodus 34:34

But whenever Moses went in before the LORD to speak with Him, he would remove the veil until he came out. And when he came out, he would tell the Israelites what he had been commanded,

Exodus 34:35

and the Israelites would see that the face of Moses was radiant. So Moses would put the veil back over his face until he went in to speak with the LORD.

Luke 9:29

And as He was praying, the appearance of His face changed, and His clothes became radiantly white.

Luke 9:30

Suddenly two men, Moses and Elijah, began talking with Jesus.

Luke 9:31

They appeared in glory and spoke about His departure, which He was about to accomplish at Jerusalem.

Acts 6:15

All who were sitting in the Sanhedrin looked intently at Stephen, and they saw that his face was like the face of an angel.

2 Corinthians 3:10

Indeed, what was once glorious has no glory now in comparison to the glory that surpasses it.

2 Corinthians 3:11

For if what was fading away came with glory, how much greater is the glory of that which endures!

2 Corinthians 3:14

But their minds were closed. For to this day the same veil remains at the reading of the old covenant. It has not been lifted, because only in Christ can it be removed.

Romans 10:4

For Christ is the end of the law, to bring righteousness to everyone who believes.

1 Corinthians 13:10

but when the perfect comes, the partial passes away.