2 Corinthians 3:7

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For if the operation of the law, giving death, recorded in letters on stone, came with glory, so that the eyes of the children of Israel had to be turned away from the face of Moses because of its glory, a glory which was only for a time:

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  • Exod 24:12 : 12 And the Lord said to Moses, Come up to me on the mountain, and take your place there: and I will give you the stones on which I have put in writing the law and the orders, so that you may give the people knowledge of them.
  • Exod 31:18 : 18 And when his talk with Moses on Mount Sinai was ended, he gave him the two stones of the law, two stones on which was the writing made by the finger of God.
  • Rom 7:10 : 10 And I made the discovery that the law whose purpose was to give life had become a cause of death:
  • Rom 10:4 : 4 For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to everyone who has faith.
  • 1 Cor 13:10 : 10 But when that which is complete is come, then that which is in part will be no longer necessary.
  • 2 Cor 3:3 : 3 For you are clearly a letter of Christ, the fruit of our work, recorded not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; not in stone, but in hearts of flesh.
  • 2 Cor 3:6 : 6 Who has made us able to be servants of a new agreement; not of the letter, but of the Spirit: for the letter gives death, but the Spirit gives life.
  • 2 Cor 3:9-9 : 9 For if the operation of the law, producing punishment, had its glory, how much greater will be the operation of the Spirit causing righteousness? 10 For the glory of the first no longer seems to be glory, because of the greater glory of that which comes after. 11 For if the order which was for a time had its glory, much more will the eternal order have its glory.
  • Rom 7:22 : 22 In my heart I take pleasure in the law of God,
  • Deut 9:15 : 15 So turning round I came down from the mountain, and the mountain was burning with fire; and the two stones of the agreement were in my hands.
  • Deut 10:1-4 : 1 At that time the Lord said to me, Make two other stones, cut like the first two, and come up to me on the mountain, and make an ark of wood. 2 And I will put on the stones the words which were on the first stones which were broken by you, and you are to put them into the ark. 3 So I made an ark of hard wood, and had two stones cut like the others, and went up the mountain with the stones in my hands. 4 And he put on the stones, as in the first writing, the ten rules which the Lord gave you on the mountain out of the fire on the day of the great meeting: and the Lord gave the stones to me.
  • Neh 9:13 : 13 And you came down on Mount Sinai, and your voice came to them from heaven, giving them right decisions and true laws, good rules and orders:
  • Ps 19:7-8 : 7 The law of the Lord is good, giving new life to the soul: the witness of the Lord is certain, giving wisdom to the foolish. 8 The orders of the Lord are right, making glad the heart: the rule of the Lord is holy, giving light to the eyes.
  • Ps 119:97 : 97 <MEM> O what love I have for your law! I give thought to it all the day.
  • Ps 119:174 : 174 All my desire has been for your salvation, O Lord; and your law is my delight.
  • Luke 9:29-31 : 29 And while he was in prayer, his face was changed and his clothing became white and shining. 30 And two men, Moses and Elijah, were talking with him; 31 Who were seen in glory and were talking of his death which was about to take place in Jerusalem.
  • Acts 6:15 : 15 And all those who were in the Sanhedrin, looking at him, saw that his face was like the face of an angel.
  • Rom 4:15 : 15 For the outcome of the law is wrath; but where there is no law it will not be broken.
  • Exod 32:15-16 : 15 Then Moses came down the mountain with the two stones of the law in his hand; the stones had writing on their two sides, on the front and on the back. 16 The stones were the work of God, and the writing was the writing of God, cut on the stones.
  • Exod 32:19 : 19 And when he came near the tents he saw the image of the ox, and the people dancing; and in his wrath Moses let the stones go from his hands, and they were broken at the foot of the mountain.
  • Exod 34:1 : 1 And the Lord said to Moses, Make two other stones like the first two; and I will put on them the words which were on the first stones, which were broken by you.
  • Exod 34:28-35 : 28 And for forty days and forty nights Moses was there with the Lord, and in that time he had no food or drink. And he put in writing on the stones the words of the agreement, the ten rules of the law. 29 Now when Moses came down from Mount Sinai, with the two stones in his hand, he was not conscious that his face was shining because of his talk with God. 30 But when Aaron and all the children of Israel saw Moses, and the shining of his face, they would not come near him for fear. 31 Then Moses sent for them; and Aaron, with the chiefs of the people, came to him; and Moses had talk with them. 32 And later, all the children of Israel came near, and he gave them all the orders which the Lord had given him on Mount Sinai. 33 And at the end of his talk with them, Moses put a veil over his face. 34 But whenever Moses went in before the Lord to have talk with him, he took off the veil till he came out. And whenever he came out he said to the children of Israel what he had been ordered to say; 35 And the children of Israel saw that the face of Moses was shining: so Moses put the veil over his face again till he went to the Lord.
  • Deut 4:8 : 8 And what great nation has laws and decisions so right as all this law which I put before you today?
  • Deut 4:13 : 13 And he gave you his agreement with you, the ten rules which you were to keep, which he put in writing on the two stones of the law.
  • Deut 5:22 : 22 These words the Lord said to all of you together on the mountain, out of the heart of the fire, out of the cloud and the dark, with a great voice: and he said no more; he put them in writing on the two stones of the law and gave them to me.
  • Deut 9:9-9 : 9 When I had gone up into the mountain to be given the stones on which was recorded the agreement which the Lord made with you, I was on the mountain for forty days and forty nights without taking food or drinking water. 10 And the Lord gave me the two stones with writing on them done by the finger of God: on them were recorded all the words which the Lord said to you on the mountain out of the heart of the fire, on the day of the great meeting. 11 Then at the end of forty days and forty nights the Lord gave me those stones, the stones of the agreement.
  • Gen 3:21 : 21 And the Lord God made for Adam and for his wife coats of skins for their clothing.
  • Rom 7:12-14 : 12 But the law is holy, and its orders are holy, upright, and good. 13 Was then that which is good, death to me? In no way. But the purpose was that sin might be seen to be sin by working death to me through that which is good; so that through the orders of the law sin might seem much more evil. 14 For we are conscious that the law is of the spirit; but I am of the flesh, given into the power of sin.
  • 2 Cor 3:13-14 : 13 And are not like Moses, who put a veil on his face, so that the children of Israel might not see clearly to the end of the present order of things: 14 But their minds were made hard: for to this very day at the reading of the old agreement the same veil is still unlifted; though it is taken away in Christ.
  • Heb 9:4 : 4 Having a vessel of gold in it for burning perfumes, and the ark of the agreement, which was covered with gold and which had in it a pot made of gold for the manna, and Aaron's rod which put out buds, and the stones with the writing of the agreement;
  • Ps 119:127-128 : 127 For this reason I have greater love far your teachings than for gold, even for shining gold. 128 Because of it I keep straight in all things by your orders; and I am a hater of every false way.

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    8Will not the operation of the Spirit have a much greater glory?

    9For if the operation of the law, producing punishment, had its glory, how much greater will be the operation of the Spirit causing righteousness?

    10For the glory of the first no longer seems to be glory, because of the greater glory of that which comes after.

    11For if the order which was for a time had its glory, much more will the eternal order have its glory.

    12Having then such a hope, we keep nothing back,

    13And are not like Moses, who put a veil on his face, so that the children of Israel might not see clearly to the end of the present order of things:

    14But their minds were made hard: for to this very day at the reading of the old agreement the same veil is still unlifted; though it is taken away in Christ.

    15But to this day, at the reading of the law of Moses, a veil is over their heart.

    16But when it is turned to the Lord, the veil will be taken away.

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    6Who has made us able to be servants of a new agreement; not of the letter, but of the Spirit: for the letter gives death, but the Spirit gives life.

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    2You yourselves are our letter, whose writing is in our heart, open for every man's reading and knowledge;

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  • Exod 34:33-35
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    33And at the end of his talk with them, Moses put a veil over his face.

    34But whenever Moses went in before the Lord to have talk with him, he took off the veil till he came out. And whenever he came out he said to the children of Israel what he had been ordered to say;

    35And the children of Israel saw that the face of Moses was shining: so Moses put the veil over his face again till he went to the Lord.

  • 2 Cor 3:18
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    18But we all, with unveiled face giving back as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as from the Lord who is the Spirit.

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    6But now we are free from the law, having been made dead to that which had power over us; so that we are servants in the new way of the spirit, not in the old way of the letter.

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    29Now when Moses came down from Mount Sinai, with the two stones in his hand, he was not conscious that his face was shining because of his talk with God.

    30But when Aaron and all the children of Israel saw Moses, and the shining of his face, they would not come near him for fear.

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    10But all the people said they were to be stoned. Then the glory of the Lord was seen in the Tent of meeting, before the eyes of all the children of Israel.

  • 2 Cor 4:6-7
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    6Seeing that it is God who said, Let light be shining out of the dark, who has put in our hearts the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.

    7But we have this wealth in vessels of earth, so that it may be seen that the power comes not from us but from God;

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    5Being servants of that which is a copy and an image of the things in heaven, as Moses, when he was about to make the Tent, had special orders from God: for, See, he said, that you make everything like the design which you saw in the mountain.

    6But now his position as priest is higher. because through him God has made a better agreement with man, based on the giving of better things.

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    13Was then that which is good, death to me? In no way. But the purpose was that sin might be seen to be sin by working death to me through that which is good; so that through the orders of the law sin might seem much more evil.

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    16And the glory of the Lord was resting on Mount Sinai, and the cloud was over it for six days; and on the seventh day he said Moses' name out of the cloud.

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    10And I made the discovery that the law whose purpose was to give life had become a cause of death:

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    12So then, death is working in us, but life in you.

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    6And Moses said, This is what the Lord has said you are to do; and you will see the glory of the Lord.

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    13When he says, A new agreement, he has made the first agreement old. But anything which is getting old and past use will not be seen much longer.

  • John 1:17
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    17For the law was given through Moses; grace and the true way of life are ours through Jesus Christ.

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    1For this reason, because we have been made servants of this new order, through the mercy given to us, we are strong:

  • Matt 17:2-3
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    2And he was changed in form before them; and his face was shining like the sun, and his clothing became white as light.

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    18And when his talk with Moses on Mount Sinai was ended, he gave him the two stones of the law, two stones on which was the writing made by the finger of God.

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    20For the order which said, If the mountain is touched even by a beast, the beast is to be stoned, seemed hard to them;

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    18So the law which went before is put on one side, because it was feeble and without profit.

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    3Giving no cause for trouble in anything, so that no one may be able to say anything against our work;

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    21Is the law then against the words of God? in no way; because if there had been a law which was able to give life, truly righteousness would have been by the law.

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    3And it was right for this man to have more honour than Moses, even as the builder of a house has more honour than the house.

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    17For our present trouble, which is only for a short time, is working out for us a much greater weight of glory;

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    12We are not again requesting your approval, but we are giving you the chance of taking pride in us, so that you may be able to give an answer to those whose glory is in seeming, and not in the heart.