New American Standard Bible 1995

2 Corinthians 3:3-9

3being manifested that you are a letter of Christ, 1 2cared for by us, written not with ink but with the Spirit of 3the living God, not on 4tablets of stone but on 5tablets of 6 7human hearts.

4Such 8confidence we have through Christ toward God. 5Not that we are adequate in ourselves to consider anything as coming from ourselves, but 9our adequacy is from God, 6who also made us adequate as 10servants of a 11new covenant, not of 12the letter but of the Spirit; for the letter kills, but 13the Spirit gives life.

7But if the 14ministry of death, 15in letters engraved on stones, came 16with glory, 17so that the sons of Israel could not look intently at the face of Moses because of the glory of his face, fading as it was, 8how will the ministry of the Spirit fail to be even more with glory? 9For if 18the ministry of condemnation has glory, much more does the 19ministry of righteousness abound in glory.

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Notes

1. 2 Corinthians 3:3 Lit served ↩
2. 2 Corinthians 3:3 2 Cor 3:6 ↩
3. 2 Corinthians 3:3 Matt 16:16 ↩
4. 2 Corinthians 3:3 Ex 24:12; 31:18; 32:15f; 2 Cor 3:7 ↩
5. 2 Corinthians 3:3 Prov 3:3; 7:3; Jer 17:1 ↩
6. 2 Corinthians 3:3 Lit hearts of flesh ↩
7. 2 Corinthians 3:3 Jer 31:33; Ezek 11:19; 36:26 ↩
8. 2 Corinthians 3:4 Eph 3:12 ↩
9. 2 Corinthians 3:5 1 Cor 15:10 ↩
10. 2 Corinthians 3:6 1 Cor 3:5 ↩
11. 2 Corinthians 3:6 Jer 31:31; Luke 22:20 ↩
12. 2 Corinthians 3:6 Rom 2:29 ↩
13. 2 Corinthians 3:6 John 6:63; Rom 7:6 ↩
14. 2 Corinthians 3:7 Rom 4:15; 5:20; 7:5f; 2 Cor 3:9; Gal 3:10, 21f ↩
15. 2 Corinthians 3:7 Ex 24:12; 31:18; 32:15f; 2 Cor 3:3 ↩
16. 2 Corinthians 3:7 Or in glory ↩
17. 2 Corinthians 3:7 Ex 34:29-35; 2 Cor 3:13 ↩
18. 2 Corinthians 3:9 Deut 27:26; 2 Cor 3:7; Heb 12:18-21 ↩
19. 2 Corinthians 3:9 Rom 1:17; 3:21f ↩

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