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Text -- 2 Corinthians 3:5-18 (NET)
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3:5 Not that we are adequate in ourselves to consider anything as if it were coming from ourselves , but our adequacy is from God ,
3:6 who made us adequate to be servants of a new covenant not based on the letter but on the Spirit , for the letter kills , but the Spirit gives life .
The Greater Glory of the Spirit’s Ministry
3:7 But if the ministry that produced death – carved in letters on stone tablets – came with glory , so that the Israelites could not keep their eyes fixed on the face of Moses because of the glory of his face (a glory which was made ineffective ),
3:8 how much more glorious will the ministry of the Spirit be ?
3:9 For if there was glory in the ministry that produced condemnation , how much more does the ministry that produces righteousness excel in glory !
3:10 For indeed, what had been glorious now has no glory because of the tremendously greater glory of what replaced it.
3:11 For if what was made ineffective came with glory , how much more has what remains come in glory !
3:12 Therefore , since we have such a hope , we behave with great boldness ,
3:13 and not like Moses who used to put a veil over his face to keep the Israelites from staring at the result of the glory that was made ineffective .
3:14 But their minds were closed . For to this very day , the same veil remains when they hear the old covenant read . It has not been removed because only in Christ is it taken away .
3:15 But until this very day whenever Moses is read , a veil lies over their minds ,
3:16 but when one turns to the Lord , the veil is removed .
3:17 Now the Lord is the Spirit , and where the Spirit of the Lord is present, there is freedom .
3:18 And we all , with unveiled faces reflecting the glory of the Lord , are being transformed into the same image from one degree of glory to another , which is from the Lord , who is the Spirit .
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Names, People and Places, Dictionary Themes and Topics
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Names, People and Places:
Dictionary Themes and Topics:
GALATIANS, EPISTLE TO THE |
Corinthians, Second Epistle to the |
Law |
Mysteries |
Moses |
Gospel |
Minister |
Glory |
VEIL (1) |
Veil |
THESSALONIANS, SECOND EPISTLE TO THE |
Veil, vail |
Holy Spirit |
Blindness |
INSPIRATION, 8-18 |
HOLY SPIRIT, 2 |
Image |
Hope |
Preaching |
Zeal |
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NET Notes -> 2Co 3:5; 2Co 3:5; 2Co 3:6; 2Co 3:6; 2Co 3:7; 2Co 3:7; 2Co 3:7; 2Co 3:7; 2Co 3:7; 2Co 3:8; 2Co 3:9; 2Co 3:9; 2Co 3:9; 2Co 3:10; 2Co 3:10; 2Co 3:11; 2Co 3:11; 2Co 3:11; 2Co 3:12; 2Co 3:13; 2Co 3:13; 2Co 3:13; 2Co 3:13; 2Co 3:14; 2Co 3:14; 2Co 3:14; 2Co 3:15; 2Co 3:16; 2Co 3:16; 2Co 3:17; 2Co 3:18; 2Co 3:18; 2Co 3:18; 2Co 3:18
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NET Notes: 2Co 3:7 Or “which was transitory.” Traditionally this phrase is translated as “which was fading away.” The verb κατ^...
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NET Notes: 2Co 3:10 The words “of what replaced it” are not in the Greek text, but have been supplied to clarify the meaning.
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NET Notes: 2Co 3:13 Or “was fading away”; Grk “on the result of what was made ineffective.” The referent (glory) has been specified in the transla...
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NET Notes: 2Co 3:16 An allusion to Exod 34:34. The entire verse may refer to Moses, viewing him as a type portraying the Jewish convert to Christianity in Paul’s da...
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NET Notes: 2Co 3:17 Grk “where the Spirit of the Lord is”; the word “present” is supplied to specify that the presence of the Lord’s Spirit ...
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