2 Corinthians 3:6

Coverdale Bible (1535)

which hath made vs able, to be mynisters of the new Testament: not of the letter, but of the sprete. For the letter kylleth, but the sprete geueth life.

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  • Jer 31:31 : 31 Beholde, the dayes come (saieth the LORDE) yt I will make a new couenaunt with ye house of Israel & with ye house of Iuda:
  • John 6:63 : 63 It is ye sprete that quyckeneth, ye flesh profiteth nothinge. The wordes that I speake, are sprete, and are life.
  • Rom 7:6 : 6 But now are we lowsed from the lawe, and deed vnto it, that helde vs captyue, so that we shulde serue in a new conuersacion of the sprete, and not in the olde conuersacion of the letter.
  • Luke 22:20 : 20 Likewyse also the cuppe, after they had supped, and sayde: This cuppe is the new Testamet in my bloude, which shalbe shed for you.
  • 1 Cor 11:25 : 25 After the same maner also he toke ye cuppe whan supper was done, and sayde: This cuppe is the new Testament in my bloude, this do (as oft as ye drynke it) in the remebrauce of me.
  • Eph 2:5 : 5 eue wha we were deed in synnes, hath quyckened vs in Christ ( for by grace are ye saued)
  • Eph 3:7 : 7 wherof I am made a mynister acordynge to the gifte of the grace of God, which is geue me acordinge to the workynge of his power.
  • 2 Cor 3:14 : 14 But their myndes are blynded. For vnto this daye remayneth the same coueringe vntake awaye in the olde Testament, whan they rede it, which in Christ is put awaye.
  • Rom 8:2 : 2 For ye lawe of ye sprete (yt bryngeth life i Christ Iesu) hath made me fre fro the lawe of synne & death.
  • 1 Cor 3:5 : 5 What is Paul? What is Apollo? Eue mynisters are they, by whom ye are come to the beleue, and the same, acordinge as the LORDE hath geuen vnto euery man.
  • 1 John 1:1 : 1 That which was from ye begynnynge, which we haue herde, which we haue sene with or eyes, which we haue loked vpon, and or handes haue handled of the worde of life:
  • Deut 27:26 : 26 Cursed be he, that contynueth not in all ye wordes of this lawe, to do them. And all ye people shal saye, Amen.
  • 1 Cor 3:10 : 10 Acordinge to the grace of God which is geuen vnto me, as a wyse buylder haue I layed the foundacion, but another buyldeth theron. Yet let euery man take hede how he buyldeth theron.
  • 2 Cor 5:18-20 : 18 Neuertheles all thinges are off God, which hath reconcyled vs vnto himselfe by Iesus Christ, and hath geuen vs the office to preach the attonement. 19 For God was in Christ, and reconcyled the worlde vnto himselfe, and counted not ther synnes vnto them, and amonge vs hath he set vp the worde of ye attonemet. 20 Now the are we messaungers in the rowme of Christ, euen as though God exhorted by vs. We beseke you now therfore in Christes steade, that ye be at one with God:
  • Gal 3:10-12 : 10 For as many as go aboute with the workes of the lawe, are vnder ye curse: For it is wrytte: Cursed be euery man, which cotynueth not in all thinges that are wrytte in the boke of the lawe, to do them. 11 That no man is iustified by the lawe in the sighte of God, it is euydet: For ye iust shal lyue by his faith. 12 The lawe is not of faith, but the ma that doth ye same, shal lyue therin.
  • Gal 3:21 : 21 Is the lawe then agaynst the promyses of God? God forbyd. Howbeit yf there had bene geuen a lawe which coulde haue geue life, the no doute righteousnes shulde come of the lawe.
  • Eph 2:1 : 1 And quyckened you also, whan ye were deed thorow trespaces and synnes,
  • Eph 4:11-12 : 11 And ye same hath set some to be Apostles, some to be prophetes, some to be Euangelistes, some to be shepherdes & teachers, 12 wherby the sayntes mighte be coupled together thorow comen seruyce to the edifienge of ye body of Christ,
  • Col 1:25-29 : 25 wherof I am made a mynister, acordinge to ye Godly office of preachinge, which is geuen vnto me amonge you, that I shulde richely preach the worde of God, 26 namely, that mystery which hath bene hyd sence the worlde beganne, and sence the begynnynge of tymes: but now is opened vnto his sayntes, 27 to whom God wolde make knowne the glorious riches of this mistery amoge ye Heythen: which (riches) is Christ in you, eue he that is the hope of glory, 28 who we preach, and warne all men, and teach all men in all wyssdome, to make euery man parfecte in Christ Iesu: 29 Wherin I also laboure, and stryue acordinge to the workynge of him which worketh mightely in me.
  • 1 Tim 1:11-12 : 11 acordinge to ye Gospell of ye glory of the blessed God, which (Gospell) is comytted vnto me. 12 And I thanke Christ Iesus or LORDE, which hath made me stroge, for he counted me faithfull, & put me in office,
  • 1 Tim 4:6 : 6 Yf thou shalt put the brethren in remembraunce of these thinges, thou shalt be a good mynister of Iesu Christ, which hast bene norished vp in the wordes of faith and of good doctryne, which thou hast folowed hither to.
  • 2 Tim 1:11 : 11 whervnto I am appoynted a preacher and an Apostell, and a teacher of the Heythen:
  • Heb 7:22 : 22 Thus is Iesus become a stablissher of so moch a better Testamete.
  • Heb 8:6-9 : 6 But now hath he optayned a more excellent office, in as moch as he is the mediatour of a better Testament, which was made for better promyses. 7 For yf that first (Testament) had bene fautles, then shulde no place haue bene soughte for the secode. 8 For in rebukynge the he sayeth: Beholde, the dayes wyll come (sayeth the LORDE) that I wyl fynish vpo the house of Israel, and vpon the house off Iuda, 9 a new Testament: not as the Testament which I made with their fathers, in that daye whan I toke them by the handes, to lede them out of the londe of Egipte: for they contynued not in my Testament, and I regarded them not, sayeth the LORDE. 10 For this is the Testament, that I wil make wt the house of Israell after those dayes, sayeth the LORDE. I wyl geue my lawes in their mynde, and in their hertes wyl I wryte them: And I wil be their God, and they shal be my people:
  • Heb 9:15-20 : 15 And for this cause is he ye mediatour of the new Testament, that thorow death which chaunsed for the redempcion of those trasgressions (that were vnder the first Testament) they which were called mighte receaue the promes of eternall inheritaunce. 16 For where soeuer is a Testament, there must also be the death of him that maketh the testament. 17 For a Testamet taketh auctorite whan men are deed: for it is no value, as longe as he that made it is alyue. 18 For the which cause that first Testamet also was not ordeyned without bloude. 19 For whan all the commaundementes (acordinge to the lawe) were red of Moses vnto all the people, he toke ye bloude of calues and of goates, with water and purple woll and ysope, and sprenkled the boke and all the people, 20 sayenge: This is the bloude of the Testament, which God hath appoynted vnto you.
  • Heb 12:24 : 24 and to Iesus the mediatoure of the new Testament, and to the sprenklynge off bloude, that speaketh better then the bloude of Abel.
  • Heb 13:20 : 20 The God of peace (that broughte agayue fro the deed oure LORDE Iesus the greate shepherde of the shepe thorow the bloude of the euerlastinge Testament)
  • 1 Pet 3:18 : 18 For as moch as Christ hath once suffred for oure synnes, ye iust for the vniust, for to brynge vs to God: & was slayne after the flesh, but quyckened after the sprete.
  • 1 Cor 12:28 : 28 And God hath ordeyned in the congregacion, first the Apostles, secodly prophetes, thirdly teachers, then doers of miracles, after that the giftes of healinge, helpers, gouerners, dyuerse tunges.
  • 1 Cor 15:45 : 45 As it is wrytten: The first man Adam was made in to a naturall life, and the last Ada in to a spiritual life.
  • 2 Cor 3:7 : 7 But yf the mynistracion yt kylleth thorow the letter, and was figured in stones, was glorious, so that the childre of Israel mighte not beholde the face of Moses, for ye clearnesse of his countenauce, (which glory neuertheles is done awaye)
  • 2 Cor 3:9 : 9 For yf the office that preacheth damnacion be glorious, moch more doth the office that preacheth righteousnes exceade in glory.
  • John 5:21 : 21 For as the father rayseth vp the deed, and maketh them lyue, eue so the sonne also maketh lyuynge whom he wyll.
  • Rom 7:9-9 : 9 As for me, I lyued some tyme without lawe. Howbeit whan the commaundement came, synne reuyued, but I was deed. 10 And the very same commaundement that was geuen me vnto life, was founde to be vnto me on occasion of death. 11 For synne toke occasion at the comaundement, and disceaued me, and slewe me by the same commaundement.
  • Rom 1:5 : 5 by whom we haue receaued grace and Apostelshippe amonge all Heythen, to set vp the obedience of faith vnder his name,
  • Rom 2:27-29 : 27 And so it that of nature is vncircumcision, and fulfilleth the lawe shal iudge the, which vnder the letter and circumcision trasgressest the lawe. 28 For he is not a Iew which is a Iewe outwarde: nether is that circucision which is done outwardly in ye flesh: 29 But he is a Iewe, which is hydd within. And the circumcision of ye hert is the circumcision, which is done in the sprete and not in the letter: Whoseprayse is not of men, but of God.
  • Rom 3:20 : 20 because yt by ye dedes of the lawe no flesh maye be iustified in his sighte. For by the lawe commeth but the knowlege of synne.
  • Rom 4:15 : 15 for so moch as the lawe causeth but wrath. For where the lawe is not, there is also no transgression.
  • Rom 4:17 : 17 As it is wrytten: I haue made the a father of many Heythe before God, whom thou hast beleued: which quyckeneth the deed, and calleth it which is not, that it maye be.
  • Matt 13:52 : 52 Then sayde he vnto the: Therfore euery scribe taught vnto ye kingdome of heauen, is like an houssholder, which bryngeth out of his treasure thinges new and olde.
  • Matt 26:28 : 28 this is my bloude of the new testament, that shalbe shed for many for the remission of synnes.
  • Mark 14:24 : 24 And he sayde vnto them: This is my bloude of the new Testament, which shalbe shed for many.

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    7But yf the mynistracion yt kylleth thorow the letter, and was figured in stones, was glorious, so that the childre of Israel mighte not beholde the face of Moses, for ye clearnesse of his countenauce, (which glory neuertheles is done awaye)

    8how shal not ye mynistracion of ye sprete be moch more glorious?

    9For yf the office that preacheth damnacion be glorious, moch more doth the office that preacheth righteousnes exceade in glory.

  • 2 Cor 3:2-5
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    2Ye are oure epistle wrytten in oure hertes: which is vnderstonde and red of all me,

    3in that ye are knowne, how that ye are ye epistle of Christ, mynistred by vs, and wrytte, not with ynke, but with the sprete of the lyuynge God: not in tables of stone, but in fleshy tables of the hert.

    4Soch trust haue we thorow Christ to God warde,

    5not that we are sufficient of oure selues to thynke eny thinge, as of oure selues, but oure ablenesse commeth of God,

  • Rom 7:5-6
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    5For whan we were in the flesh, the synfull lustes (which were stered vp by the lawe) were mightie in oure membres to brynge forth frute vnto death.

    6But now are we lowsed from the lawe, and deed vnto it, that helde vs captyue, so that we shulde serue in a new conuersacion of the sprete, and not in the olde conuersacion of the letter.

  • 2 Cor 4:10-12
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    10We allwayes beare aboute in oure body the dyenge of the LORDE Iesus yt the life also of the LORDE Iesus might appeare in oure body.

    11For we which lyue, are alwayes delyuered vnto death for Iesus sake, that the life also of Iesus might appeare in oure mortall flesh.

    12Therfore is death now mightie in vs, but life in you.

  • Rom 8:2
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    2For ye lawe of ye sprete (yt bryngeth life i Christ Iesu) hath made me fre fro the lawe of synne & death.

  • 2 Cor 2:15-17
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    15For we are vnto God the good fauoure of Christ, both amonge the yt are saued, & amonge them yt perishe.

    16To these, ye sauoure of death vnto death: but vnto ye other, the sauoure of life vnto life. And who is mete therto?

    17For we are not as many are, which choppe & chaunge wt the worde of God, but eue out of purenesse, and out of God, in ye sighte of God, so speake we in Christ.

  • 2 Cor 3:17-18
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    17For the LORDE is a sprete: & where the sprete of the LORDE is, there is libertye.

    18But now the glory of ye LORDE apeareth in vs all with open face, and we are chaunged into the same ymage, from one clearnes to another, eue as of the sprete of the LORDE.

  • 2 Cor 1:9
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    9and had concluded in oure selues yt we must nedes dye. But this was done, because we shulde not put oure trust in oure selues, but in God, which rayseth vp the deed to life agayne:

  • 2 Cor 4:5-7
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    5For we preach not or selues, but Iesus Christ to be the LORDE, and oure selues youre seruauntes for Iesus sake.

    6For God that comaunded the light to shyne out of darcknesse, hath geuen a cleare shyne in oure hertes, yt by vs ye light of ye knowlege of the glory of God mighte come forth, in the face of Iesus Christ.

    7But this treasure haue we in earthen vessels, that ye power which excelleth might be of God, and not of vs.

  • 2 Cor 4:1
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    1Therfore seynge we haue soch an office (euen as mercy is come vpon vs) we faynte not,

  • 1 Cor 2:12-13
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    12As for vs, we haue not receaued the sprete of this worlde, but the sprete which cometh of God, so that we ca knowe what is geue vs of God:

    13which we also speake, not with connynge wordes of mas wyssdome, but with the conynge wordes of the holy goost, and iudge spirituall matters spiritually.

  • 2 Cor 5:5
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    5But he that hath ordeyned vs for this, is God, which hath geuen vs the earnest of the sprete.

  • 2 Cor 1:21-22
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    21But it is God which stablysheth vs wt you in Christ, and hath anoynted us,

    22and sealed us, and geuen the ernest of the sprete in oure hertes.

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    4but as we are alowed of God, that the Gospell shulde be commytted vnto vs to preache, euen so we speake, not as though we wolde please me, but God, which tryeth oure hertes.

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    5What is Paul? What is Apollo? Eue mynisters are they, by whom ye are come to the beleue, and the same, acordinge as the LORDE hath geuen vnto euery man.

  • 1 Cor 2:10
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    10But God hath opened it vnto vs by his sprete. For the sprete searcheth out all thinges, yee euen the depenesses of the God heade.

  • Rom 8:9-13
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    9Howbeit ye are not fleshly, but goostly, yf so be that the sprete of God dwell in you. But who so hath not the sprete of Christ, the same is not his.

    10Neuertheles yf Christ be in you, then is the body deed because of synne. But the sprete is life for righteousnes sake.

    11Wherfore yf the sprete of him, that raysed vp Iesus from the deed, dwell in you, then shal euen he also that raysed vp Christ from the deed, quycke youre mortal bodies, because yt his sprete dwelleth in you.

    12Therfore brethre we are now detters, not to the flesh,

    13to lyue after the flesh: for yf ye lyue after ye fleshe, ye must dye: but yf ye mortyfye the dedes of the body thorow the sprete, ye shal lyue.

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    1And quyckened you also, whan ye were deed thorow trespaces and synnes,

  • Gal 3:5
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    5He that geueth you the sprete, and doth soch greate actes amoge you, doth he it thorow the dedes of the lawe, or by ye preachinge of the faith?

  • Rom 8:4-6
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    4& by synne daned synne in ye flesh: that the righteousnes requyred of the lawe, mighte be fulfylled in vs, which walke not after the flesh, but after the sprete.

    5For they that are fleshly, are fleshly mynded: but they that are goostly, are goostly mynded.

    6To be fleshly mynded, is death: but to be goostly mynded, is life and peace.

  • 2 Cor 3:13
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    13and do not as Moses, which put a vayle before his face, so that ye children of Israel mighte not se the ende of it, that is done awaye.

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    3Let vs geue no man occasion of euell, that oure office be not euell spoken of:

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    7For God hath not geuen vs the sprete of feare, but of power, and of loue, and of right vnderstondynge.

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    7wherof I am made a mynister acordynge to the gifte of the grace of God, which is geue me acordinge to the workynge of his power.

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    9Not but that we had auctorite, but to geue oure selues for an ensample vnto you to folowe vs.

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    25wherof I am made a mynister, acordinge to ye Godly office of preachinge, which is geuen vnto me amonge you, that I shulde richely preach the worde of God,

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    16Therfore are we not weery, but though or outwarde man be corrupte, yet the inwarde is renewed daye by daye.

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    12We prayse not oure selues agayne vnto you, but geue you an occasion to reioyse of vs, yt ye maye haue to reioyse agaynst them, which reioyse after the outwarde appearaunce, and not after the hert.