(KJV) 2 Corinthians 31

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⥃Ministers of a New Covenant

[1] Do we begin2 again to commend ourselves? or need we, as some [others], epistles3 of commendation to you, or [letters] of commendation from you? [2] Ye are4 our epistle written in5 our hearts, known6 and read of all men: [3] [Forasmuch as ye are] manifestly declared to be the epistle7 of Christ ministered8 by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living9 God; not10 in tables of stone, but11 in fleshy tables of the heart. [4] And such12 trust have we through Christ to God-ward13: [5] Not that14 we are sufficient of ourselves to think any thing as of ourselves; but15 our sufficiency [is] of God; [6] Who also hath16 made us able ministers of the new17 testament; not18 of the letter, but of the spirit: for19 the letter killeth, but the20 spirit giveth life21.

⥃The Glory of the New Covenant [ Exodus 34:10–35 ]

[7] But if the ministration22 of death, written23 [and] engraven in stones, was24 glorious, so that25 the children of Israel could not stedfastly behold the face of Moses for the glory of his countenance; which26 [glory] was to be done away: [8] How shall not the ministration27 of the spirit be rather glorious? [9] For if the ministration of condemnation28 [be] glory, much more doth the ministration of righteousness29 exceed30 in glory. [10] For even that which was made glorious had31 no glory in this respect, by reason of the glory that excelleth. [11] For if32 that which is done away [was] glorious, much33 more that which remaineth [is] glorious. [12] Seeing then that we have such hope, we use34 great plainness35 of speech: [13] And not as Moses, [which36] put a vail over his face, that the children of Israel could not37 stedfastly look to the38 end of that which is abolished: [14] But their39 minds were blinded: for until this day remaineth the same vail untaken away in the reading of the old testament; which [vail40] is done away in Christ. [15] But even unto this day, when Moses is read, the vail41 is upon their heart. [16] Nevertheless when42 it shall turn to the Lord, the vail43 shall be taken away. [17] Now the Lord44 is that Spirit: and where45 the Spirit of the Lord [is], there [is] liberty. [18] But we all, with46 open face beholding as in47 a glass the glory48 of the Lord, are49 changed into the same image from50 glory to glory, [even] as by the Spirit of the Lord51.

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  1. 2Cor 3:1, Lest their false teachers should charge him with vain glory, he shews the faith and graces of the Corinthians to be a sufficient commendation of his ministry; 2Cor 3:6, Whereupon entering a comparison between the ministers of the law and of the gospel, 2Cor 3:12. he proves that his ministry is so far the more excellent, as the gospel of life and liberty is more glorious than the law of condemnation. ↩

  2. 2Cor 2:17, 2Cor 5:12, 2Cor 10:8, 2Cor 10:12, 2Cor 12:11, 2Cor 12:19; 1Cor 3:10, 1Cor 4:15, 1Cor 10:33 ↩

  3. Acts 18:27; 1Cor 16:3 ↩

  4. 1Cor 3:10, 1Cor 9:1-2 ↩

  5. 2Cor 7:3, 2Cor 11:11, 2Cor 12:15; Phil 1:7 ↩

  6. Rom 1:8; 1Cor 9:2; 1Thess 1:8 ↩

  7. Exod 31:18; Rev 2:1, Rev 2:8, Rev 2:12, Rev 2:18, Rev 3:1, Rev 3:7, Rev 3:14, Rev 3:22 ↩

  8. 1Cor 8:5-10 ↩

  9. 2Cor 6:16; Josh 3:10; 1Sam 17:26; Ps 42:2, Ps 84:2; Jer 10:10; Dan 6:26; Matt 16:16; 1Thess 1:9; Heb 9:14 ↩

  10. Exod 24:12, Exod 34:1 ↩

  11. Ps 40:8; Jer 31:33; Ezek 11:19, Ezek 36:25-27; Heb 8:10, Heb 10:16 ↩

  12. 2Cor 2:14; Phil 1:6 ↩

  13. Exod 18:19; 1Thess 1:8 ↩

  14. 2Cor 2:16, 2Cor 4:7; Exod 4:10; John 15:5 ↩

  15. 2Cor 12:9; Exod 4:11-16; Jer 1:6-10; Matt 10:19-20; Luke 21:15, Luke 24:49; 1Cor 3:6, 1Cor 3:10, 1Cor 15:10; Phil 2:13, Phil 4:13; Jas 1:17 ↩

  16. 2Cor 5:18-20; Matt 13:52; Rom 1:5; 1Cor 3:5, 1Cor 3:10, 1Cor 12:28; Eph 3:7, Eph 4:11-12; Col 1:25-29; 1Tim 1:11-12, 1Tim 4:6; 2Tim 1:11 ↩

  17. 2Cor 3:14; Jer 31:31; Matt 26:28; Mark 14:24; Luke 22:20; 1Cor 11:25; Heb 7:22; Heb 8:6-10, Heb 9:15-20, Heb 12:24, Heb 13:20 *marg. ↩

  18. Rom 2:27-29, Rom 7:6 ↩

  19. 2Cor 3:7, 2Cor 3:9; Deut 27:26; Rom 3:20, Rom 4:15, Rom 7:9-11; Gal 3:10-12, Gal 3:21 ↩

  20. John 6:63; Rom 8:2; 1John 1:1 ↩

  21. or, quickeneth, John 5:21; Rom 4:17; 1Cor 15:45; Eph 2:1, Eph 2:5; 1Pet 3:18 ↩

  22. 2Cor 3:6, 2Cor 3:9; Rom 7:10 ↩

  23. 2Cor 3:3; Exod 24:12, Exod 31:18, Exod 32:15-16, Exod 32:19, Exod 34:1, Exod 34:28; Deut 4:13, Deut 5:22, Deut 9:9-11, Deut 9:15; Deut 10:1-4; Heb 9:4 ↩

  24. Deut 4:8; Neh 9:13; Ps 19:7-8, Ps 119:97, Ps 119:127-128, Ps 119:174; Rom 7:12-14, Rom 7:22; Gen 3:21 ↩

  25. Exod 34:29-35; Luke 9:29-31; Acts 6:15 ↩

  26. 2Cor 3:10-11, 2Cor 3:14; Rom 10:4; 1Cor 13:10 ↩

  27. 2Cor 3:6, 2Cor 3:17, 2Cor 11:4; Isa 11:2, Isa 44:3, Isa 59:21; Joel 2:28-29; John 1:17, John 7:39; Acts 2:17-18, Acts 2:32-33; Rom 8:9-16; 1Cor 3:16, 1Cor 12:4-11; Gal 3:2-5, Gal 3:14; Gal 5:5, Gal 5:22-23; Eph 2:18; 2Thess 2:13; 1Pet 1:2; Jude 1:19-20 ↩

  28. 2Cor 3:6-7; Exod 19:12-19, Exod 20:18-19; Rom 1:18, Rom 8:3-4; Gal 3:10; Heb 12:18-21 ↩

  29. 2Cor 5:21; Isa 46:13; Jer 23:6; Rom 1:17, Rom 3:21-22, Rom 4:11, Rom 5:15-21, Rom 10:3-10; 1Cor 1:30; Gal 5:4-5; Phil 3:9; 2Pet 1:1 ↩

  30. 2Cor 3:10-11; 1Cor 15:41; Heb 3:5-6 ↩

  31. Job 25:5; Isa 24:23; Hag 2:3, Hag 2:7-9; Acts 26:13; Phil 3:7-8; 2Pet 1:17; Rev 21:23-24, Rev 22:5 ↩

  32. 2Cor 3:7; Rom 5:20-21; Heb 7:21-25, Heb 8:13, Heb 12:25-29 ↩

  33. 2Cor 3:6, 2Cor 4:1 ↩

  34. 2Cor 4:2-3, 2Cor 4:13; John 10:24, John 16:25, John 16:29; 1Cor 14:19; Col 4:4 ↩

  35. or, boldness, 2Cor 7:4, 2Cor 10:1; Acts 4:13, Acts 4:29-31, Acts 9:27, Acts 9:29, Acts 14:3; Eph 6:19-20; Phil 1:20; 1Thess 2:2; 1Tim 3:13 ↩

  36. Exod 34:33-35 ↩

  37. 2Cor 3:18 ↩

  38. Rom 10:4; Gal 3:23-24; Eph 2:14-15; Col 2:17; Heb 10:1-9 ↩

  39. 2Cor 4:3-4; Ps 69:23; Isa 6:10, Isa 26:10-12, Isa 42:18-20, Isa 44:18, Isa 56:10, Isa 59:10; Jer 5:21; Ezek 12:2; Matt 6:23, Matt 13:11, Matt 13:13-15; John 9:39-41, John 12:40; Acts 28:26-27; Rom 11:7-10, Rom 11:25 ↩

  40. 2Cor 4:6; Isa 25:7; Matt 16:17; Luke 18:31-34, Luke 24:25-27, Luke 24:44-46; John 8:12; John 12:46; Acts 16:14, Acts 26:18; Eph 1:17-20 ↩

  41. Acts 13:27-29 ↩

  42. Exod 34:34; Deut 4:30, Deut 30:10; Lam 3:40; Hos 3:4-5; Rom 11:25-27 ↩

  43. Isa 25:7, Isa 29:18, Isa 54:13; Jer 31:34; John 6:45-46 ↩

  44. 2Cor 3:6; John 6:63; 1Cor 15:45 ↩

  45. Ps 51:12; Isa 61:1; Rom 8:2, Rom 8:15-16; Gal 4:6; 2Tim 1:7 ↩

  46. 2Cor 3:13 ↩

  47. 1Cor 13:12; Jas 1:23 ↩

  48. 2Cor 4:4, 2Cor 4:6; John 1:14, John 12:41; 1Tim 1:11 *Gr. ↩

  49. 2Cor 5:17; Rom 8:29, Rom 12:2, Rom 13:14; 1Cor 15:49; Gal 6:15; Eph 4:22-24; Col 3:10; Titus 3:5; 2Pet 1:5-9 ↩

  50. Rom 8:4, Rom 8:7 ↩

  51. or, of the Lord the Spirit, 2Cor 3:17 ↩