2 Corinthians 3:7 · KJV
“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:”
— 2 Corinthians 3:7
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. {giveth life: or, quickeneth}
How shall not the ministration of the spirit be rather glorious?
2 Corinthians 3 — Context
Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think any thing as of ourselves; but our sufficiency {is} of God;
6Who 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. {giveth life: or, quickeneth}
7But 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:
8How shall not the ministration of the spirit be rather glorious?
9For if the ministration of condemnation {be} glory, much more doth the ministration of righteousness exceed in glory.
Cross References
2 Corinthians 3:9-11
For if the ministration of condemnation {be} glory, much more doth the ministration of righteousness exceed in glory.
Exodus 31:18
And he gave unto Moses, when he had made an end of communing with him upon mount Sinai, two tables of testimony, tables of stone, written with the finger of God.
Romans 10:4
For Christ {is} the end of the law for righteousness to every one that believeth.
1 Corinthians 13:10
But when that which is perfect is come, then that which is in part shall be done away. {done away: Gr. vanish away}
2 Corinthians 3:3
{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.
2 Corinthians 3:6
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. {giveth life: or, quickeneth}
Exodus 24:12
And the LORD said unto Moses, Come up to me into the mount, and be there: and I will give thee tables of stone, and a law, and commandments which I have written; that thou mayest teach them.
Deuteronomy 10:1-4
At that time the LORD said unto me, Hew thee two tables of stone like unto the first, and come up unto me into the mount, and make thee an ark of wood.