2 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:”
Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think any thing as of ourselves; but our sufficiency is of God;
Who 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.
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:
How shall not the ministration of the spirit be rather glorious?
For if the ministration of condemnation be glory, much more doth the ministration of righteousness exceed in glory.
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Related Verses
“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:”
“For if that which is done away was glorious, much more that which remaineth is glorious.”
“For even that which was made glorious had no glory in this respect, by reason of the glory that excelleth.”
“How shall not the ministration of the spirit be rather glorious?”
“For if the ministration of condemnation be glory, much more doth the ministration of righteousness exceed in glory.”