2 Corinthians 3:13
11 For if that which is done away was glorious, much more that which remaineth is glorious.
12 Seeing then that we have such hope, we use great plainness of speech:
And 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:
14 But 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.
15 But even unto this day, when Moses is read, the vail is upon their heart.
Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- We are not like Moses, who would put a veil over his face to keep the Israelites from gazing at the end of what was fading away.
- KJV
- And 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:
- WEB
- and not as Moses, who put a veil on his face so that the children of Israel wouldn’t look steadfastly on the end of that which was passing away.
- ASV
- and [are] not as Moses, [who] put a veil upon his face, that the children of Israel should not look stedfastly on the end of that which was passing away:
- DARBY
- and not according as Moses put a veil on his own face, so that the children of Israel should not fix their eyes on the end of that annulled.
- BLB
- and not as Moses would put a veil over his face for the sons of Israel not to look intently into the end of what [was] fading away.
- ÅB
- og gjør ikke som Moses, som la et dekke over sitt åsyn, for at Israels barn ikke skulle skue enden av det som svant.
- OTB
- Og vi er ikke som Moses, som ville legge et slør over ansiktet sitt slik at Israels sønner ikke skulle feste blikket på det som var avtagende.
- B1930
- og gjør ikke som Moses, som la et dekke over sitt åsyn, forat Israels barn ikke skulde skue enden av det som svant.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Exodus 34:33–35
And till Moses had done speaking with them, he put a vail on his face.
Read in contextEphesians 2:14–15
For he is our peace, who hath made both one, and hath broken down the middle wall of partition between us;
Read in contextColossians 2:17
Which are a shadow of things to come; but the body is of Christ.
Read in contextHebrews 10:1–9
For the law having a shadow of good things to come, and not the very image of the things, can never with those sacrifices which they offered year by year continually make the comers thereunto perfect.
Read in context2 Corinthians 3:7
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:
Read in contextGalatians 3:23–24
But before faith came, we were kept under the law, shut up unto the faith which should afterwards be revealed.
Read in contextRomans 10:4
For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to every one that believeth.
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