2 Corinthians 3 (NET)

2 Corinthians 3:1¹Are we beginning to commend ourselves again? We don?t need letters of recommendation to you or from you as some other people do, do we?Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong?sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:2 Cor 10:122 Cor 12:112 Cor 5:12Acts 18:271 Cor 16:31 Cor 10:331 Cor 3:101 Cor 4:152 Cor 10:82 Cor 12:19

2 Corinthians 3:2²You yourselves are our letter, written on our hearts, known and read by everyone,Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong?sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Cor 9:1-21 Thess 1:8Rom 1:8Phil 1:71 Cor 3:102 Cor 11:112 Cor 12:152 Cor 7:3

2 Corinthians 3:3³revealing that you are a letter of Christ, delivered by us, written not with ink but by the Spirit of the living God, not on stone tablets but on tablets of human hearts.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong?sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ezek 11:19Jer 31:33Heb 8:10Heb 10:16Ps 40:8Exod 31:182 Cor 6:16Ezek 36:25-27Heb 9:14Exod 24:12

2 Corinthians 3:4⁴Now we have such confidence in God through Christ.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong?sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Phil 1:6Eph 3:121 Thess 1:82 Cor 2:14Exod 18:19

2 Corinthians 3:5⁵Not that we are adequate in ourselves to consider anything as if it were coming from ourselves, but our adequacy is from God,Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong?sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:2 Cor 12:9Phil 4:131 Cor 15:10Phil 2:13John 15:5Jas 1:17Matt 10:19-201 Cor 3:6Luke 21:15Exod 4:10-16

2 Corinthians 3:6⁶who made us adequate to be servants of a new covenant not based on the letter but on the Spirit, for the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong?sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:John 6:63Rom 7:6Jer 31:31Rom 8:2Heb 8:6-101 Cor 15:452 Cor 3:14Heb 12:24Heb 7:22Rom 3:20

2 Corinthians 3:7⁷But if the ministry that produced death?carved in letters on stone tablets ?came with glory, so that the Israelites could not keep their eyes fixed on the face of Moses because of the glory of his face (a glory which was made ineffective),Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong?sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:2 Cor 3:9-111 Cor 13:10Exod 31:18Rom 10:42 Cor 3:32 Cor 3:6Exod 24:12Deut 10:1-42 Cor 3:13-14Ps 119:97

2 Corinthians 3:8⁸how much more glorious will the ministry of the Spirit be?Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong?sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Cor 3:16Eph 2:181 Pet 1:22 Thess 2:13Gal 3:14Gal 5:22-23Isa 59:21Joel 2:28-29John 1:17Isa 11:2

2 Corinthians 3:9⁹For if there was glory in the ministry that produced condemnation, how much more does the ministry that produces righteousness excel in glory!Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong?sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Heb 12:18-21Rom 3:21-222 Cor 5:211 Cor 1:301 Cor 15:412 Cor 3:10-112 Cor 3:6-72 Pet 1:1Exod 19:12-19Exod 20:18-19

2 Corinthians 3:10¹⁰For indeed, what had been glorious now has no glory because of the tremendously greater glory of what replaced it.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong?sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:2 Pet 1:17Hag 2:7-9Acts 26:13Hag 2:3Isa 24:23Job 25:5Phil 3:7-8Rev 21:23-24Rev 22:5

2 Corinthians 3:11¹¹For if what was made ineffective came with glory, how much more has what remains come in glory!Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong?sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Heb 8:13Rom 5:20-21Heb 7:21-252 Cor 3:6-72 Cor 4:1Heb 12:25-29

2 Corinthians 3:12¹²Therefore, since we have such a hope, we behave with great boldness,Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong?sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:2 Cor 7:4Eph 6:19-20Acts 4:13John 16:29Phil 1:201 Cor 14:191 Thess 2:21 Tim 3:132 Cor 10:12 Cor 4:13

2 Corinthians 3:13¹³and not like Moses who used to put a veil over his face to keep the Israelites from staring at the result of the glory that was made ineffective.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong?sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Exod 34:33-35Eph 2:14-152 Cor 3:7Col 2:17Heb 10:1-9Gal 3:23-24Rom 10:4

2 Corinthians 3:14¹⁴But their minds were closed. For to this very day, the same veil remains when they hear the old covenant read. It has not been removed because only in Christ is it taken away.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong?sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:2 Cor 4:3-4Acts 26:18Rom 11:252 Cor 4:6Eph 1:17-20John 12:40Rom 11:7-10John 8:12Matt 13:11Acts 16:14

2 Corinthians 3:15¹⁵But until this very day whenever Moses is read, a veil lies over their minds,Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong?sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Acts 13:27-29

2 Corinthians 3:16¹⁶but when one turns to the Lord, the veil is removed.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong?sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Exod 34:34Isa 25:7Isa 29:18John 6:45-46Jer 31:34Rom 11:23Rom 11:25-27Lam 3:40Deut 30:10Deut 4:30

2 Corinthians 3:17¹⁷Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is present, there is freedom.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong?sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Rom 8:2John 8:32Gal 5:13Gal 4:6Gal 5:1Isa 61:1-2John 6:632 Tim 1:7Rom 8:15-16Ps 51:12

2 Corinthians 3:18¹⁸And we all, with unveiled faces reflecting the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from one degree of glory to another, which is from the Lord, who is the Spirit.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong?sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:2 Cor 4:6Eph 4:22-24Rom 12:22 Cor 4:41 Cor 13:12Col 3:101 Cor 15:49Rom 8:292 Cor 5:17John 1:14