2 Corinthians 3:9
7 Now if the ministry of death, which was engraved in letters on stone, came with such glory that the Israelites could not gaze at the face of Moses because of its fleeting glory,
8 will not the ministry of the Spirit be even more glorious?
For if the ministry of condemnation was glorious, how much more glorious is the ministry of righteousness!
10 Indeed, what was once glorious has no glory now in comparison to the glory that surpasses it.
11 For if what was fading away came with glory, how much greater is the glory of that which endures!
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- For if the ministry of condemnation was glorious, how much more glorious is the ministry of righteousness!
- KJV
- For if the ministration of condemnation be glory, much more doth the ministration of righteousness exceed in glory.
- WEB
- For if the service of condemnation has glory, the service of righteousness exceeds much more in glory.
- ASV
- For if the ministration of condemnation hath glory, much rather doth the ministration of righteousness exceed in glory.
- DARBY
- For if the ministry of condemnation [be] glory, much rather the ministry of righteousness abounds in glory.
- BLB
- For if in the ministry of condemnation [was] glory, much more does the ministry of righteousness abound [in] glory!
- ÅB
- For dersom fordømmelsens tjeneste er herlighet, da er rettferdighetens tjeneste enda langt mere rik på herlighet;
- OTB
- For hvis tjenesten som brakte fordømmelse hadde herlighet, mye mer har tjenesten som bringer rettferdighet overflod av herlighet.
- B1930
- For dersom fordømmelsens tjeneste er herlighet, da er rettferdighetens tjeneste ennu langt mere rik på herlighet;
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Hebrews 12:18–21
For you have not come to a mountain that can be touched and that is burning with fire; to darkness, gloom, and storm;
Read in contextRomans 3:21–22
But now, apart from the law, the righteousness of God has been revealed, as attested by the Law and the Prophets.
Read in context2 Corinthians 5:21
God made Him who knew no sin to be sin on our behalf, so that in Him we might become the righteousness of God.
Read in context2 Corinthians 3:6–7
And He has qualified us as ministers of a new covenant, not of the letter but of the Spirit; for the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.
Read in context1 Corinthians 15:41
The sun has one degree of splendor, the moon another, and the stars another; and star differs from star in splendor.
Read in context2 Peter 1:1
Simon Peter, a servant and apostle of Jesus Christ, To those who through the righteousness of our God and Savior Jesus Christ have received a faith as precious as ours:
Read in contextJeremiah 23:6
In His days Judah will be saved, and Israel will dwell securely. And this is His name by which He will be called: The LORD Our Righteousness.
Read in contextRomans 5:15–21
But the gift is not like the trespass. For if the many died by the trespass of the one man, how much more did God’s grace and the gift that came by the grace of the one man, Jesus Christ, abound to the many!
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