2 Corinthians 3

King James Version · 18 verses · 550 cross-references linking it to 245 other chapters

1. 1Do we begin again to commend ourselves? or need we, as some others, epistles of commendation to you, or letters of commendation from you?23 cross-references: 2 Corinthians 5:12, Acts 18:27, 2 Corinthians 12:11, 2 Corinthians 10:12, 1 Corinthians 16:3
2. 2Ye are our epistle written in our hearts, known and read of all men:13 cross-references: 1 Corinthians 9:1–2, 1 Thessalonians 1:8, Philippians 1:7, Romans 1:8, 2 Corinthians 12:15
3. 3Forasmuch 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.52 cross-references: Ezekiel 11:19, Jeremiah 31:33, Hebrews 8:10, Hebrews 10:16, Psalms 40:8
4. 4And such trust have we through Christ to God-ward:10 cross-references: Ephesians 3:12, Philippians 1:6, Exodus 18:19, 1 Thessalonians 1:8, 2 Corinthians 2:14
5. 5Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think any thing as of ourselves; but our sufficiency is of God;42 cross-references: 2 Corinthians 12:9, Philippians 4:13, 1 Corinthians 15:10, Philippians 2:13, John 15:5
6. 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.76 cross-references: John 6:63, Romans 7:6, Jeremiah 31:31, Romans 8:2, Hebrews 8:6–10
7. 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:58 cross-references: 2 Corinthians 3:9–11, 1 Corinthians 13:10, Romans 10:4, Exodus 31:18, 2 Corinthians 3:3
8. 8How shall not the ministration of the spirit be rather glorious?29 cross-references: 1 Corinthians 3:16, Ephesians 2:18, Galatians 3:14, Isaiah 59:21, John 1:17
9. 9For if the ministration of condemnation be glory, much more doth the ministration of righteousness exceed in glory.30 cross-references: Romans 3:21–22, Hebrews 12:18–21, 2 Corinthians 5:21, Jeremiah 23:6, Exodus 20:18–19
10. 10For even that which was made glorious had no glory in this respect, by reason of the glory that excelleth.13 cross-references: 2 Peter 1:17, Haggai 2:7–9, Philippians 3:7–8, Revelation 21:23–24, Revelation 22:5
11. 11For if that which is done away was glorious, much more that which remaineth is glorious.7 cross-references: Hebrews 8:13, Romans 5:20–21, Hebrews 7:21–25, 2 Corinthians 4:1, 2 Corinthians 3:6–7
12. 12Seeing then that we have such hope, we use great plainness of speech:32 cross-references: 2 Corinthians 7:4, Acts 4:13, John 16:29, Ephesians 6:19–20, Philippians 1:20
13. 13And not as Moses, which put a vail over his face, that the children of Israel could not stedfastly look to the end of that which is abolished:13 cross-references: Exodus 34:33–35, Hebrews 10:1–9, Ephesians 2:14–15, 2 Corinthians 3:7, Galatians 3:23–24
14. 14But their minds were blinded: for until this day remaineth the same vail untaken away in the reading of the old testament; which vail is done away in Christ.62 cross-references: 2 Corinthians 4:3–4, Acts 26:18, Romans 11:25, Romans 11:7–10, 2 Corinthians 4:6
15. 15But even unto this day, when Moses is read, the vail is upon their heart.5 cross-references: Acts 13:27–29
16. 16Nevertheless when it shall turn to the Lord, the vail shall be taken away.18 cross-references: Exodus 34:34, Isaiah 25:7, Isaiah 29:18, John 6:45–46, Jeremiah 31:34
17. 17Now the Lord is that Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.26 cross-references: Romans 8:2, Galatians 5:13, John 8:32, Galatians 4:6, Galatians 5:1
18. 18But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord.71 cross-references: 2 Corinthians 4:6, Ephesians 4:22–24, Romans 12:2, 2 Corinthians 4:4, 1 Corinthians 13:12

Explained connections

• Written on hearts of flesh Ezekiel 36:26 and 2 Corinthians 3:3

  Ezekiel contrasts hearts of stone and flesh. Paul says the Corinthians are a letter written by the Spirit not on stone tablets but on tablets of human hearts — new covenant ministry.

• Ministers of a new covenant Jeremiah 31:31 and 2 Corinthians 3:6

  Paul calls himself a minister of the new covenant, of the Spirit rather than the letter. He contrasts it with the fading glory of Sinai.

• The veil over Moses' face Exodus 34:33 and 2 Corinthians 3:13

  Moses veiled his shining face before the people. Paul uses the veil for a fading covenant and a dulled understanding, removed when anyone turns to the Lord.

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