2 Corinthians 3:7

Geneva Bible (1560)

If then the ministration of death written with letters and ingrauen in stones, was glorious, so that the children of Israel coulde not beholde the face of Moses, for the glorie of his countenance (which glorie is done away.)

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  • Exod 24:12 : 12 And the Lord said vnto Moses, Come vp to me into the mountaine, and be there, and I will giue thee tables of stone, and the law and the commandement, which I haue written, for to teach them.
  • Exod 31:18 : 18 Thus (when the Lord had made an ende of communing with Moses vpon mount Sinai) he gaue him two Tables of the Testimonie, euen tables of stone, written with the finger of God.
  • Rom 7:10 : 10 But I died: and the same commandement which was ordeined vnto life, was found to be vnto me vnto death.
  • Rom 10:4 : 4 For Christ is the end of the Law for righteousnes vnto euery one that beleeueth.
  • 1 Cor 13:10 : 10 But when that which is perfect, is come, then that which is in part, shalbe abolished.
  • 2 Cor 3:3 : 3 In that yee are manifest, to be the Epistle of Christ, ministred by vs, and written, not with yncke, but with the Spirite of the liuing God, not in tables of stone, but in fleshly tables of the heart.
  • 2 Cor 3:6 : 6 Who also hath made vs able ministers of the Newe testament, not of the letter, but of the Spirite: for the letter killeth, but the Spirite giueth life.
  • 2 Cor 3:9-9 : 9 For if the ministerie of condemnation was glorious, much more doeth the ministration of righteousnesse exceede in glorie. 10 For euen that which was glorified, was not glorified in this point, that is, as touching the exceeding glorie. 11 For if that which should be abolished, was glorious, much more shall that which remaineth, be glorious.
  • Rom 7:22 : 22 For I delite in the Law of God, concerning the inner man:
  • Deut 9:15 : 15 So I returned, and came downe from the Mount (and the Mount burnt with fire, and ye two Tables of the couenant were in my two handes)
  • Deut 10:1-4 : 1 In the same time the Lord said vnto me, Hewe thee two Tables of stone like vnto the first, and come vp vnto me into the Mount, and make thee an Arke of wood, 2 And I will write vpon the Tables ye wordes that were vpon the first Tables, which thou brakest, and thou shalt put them in the Arke. 3 And I made an Arke of Shittim wood, and hewed two Tables of stone like vnto the first, and went vp into the Mountaine, and the two Tables in mine hand. 4 Then he wrote vpon the Tables according to the first writing (the tenne commandements, which the Lord spake vnto you in the Mount out of the middes of the fire, in the day of the assemblie) and the Lord gaue them vnto me.
  • Neh 9:13 : 13 Thou camest downe also vpon mount Sinai, and spakest vnto them from heauen, and gauest them right iudgements, and true lawes, ordinances and good commandements,
  • Ps 19:7-8 : 7 The Lawe of the Lord is perfite, conuerting the soule: the testimonie of the Lord is sure, and giueth wisedome vnto the simple. 8 The statutes of the Lorde are right and reioyce the heart: the commandement of the Lord is pure, and giueth light vnto the eyes.
  • Ps 119:97 : 97 Mem. Oh howe loue I thy Lawe! it is my meditation continually.
  • Ps 119:174 : 174 I haue longed for thy saluation, O Lorde, and thy Lawe is my delite.
  • Luke 9:29-31 : 29 And as he prayed, the fashion of his countenance was changed, and his garment was white and glistered. 30 And beholde, two men talked with him, which were Moses and Elias: 31 Which appeared in glory, and tolde of his departing, which he shoulde accomplish at Hierusalem.
  • Acts 6:15 : 15 And as all that sate in the Councill, looked stedfastly on him, they saw his face as it had bene the face of an Angel.
  • Rom 4:15 : 15 For the Lawe causeth wrath: for where no Lawe is, there is no transgression.
  • Exod 32:15-16 : 15 So Moses returned and went downe from the mountaine with the two Tables of the Testimonie in his hande: the Tables were written on both their sides, euen on the one side and on the other were they written. 16 And these Tables were the worke of God, and this writing was the writing of God grauen in the Tables.
  • Exod 32:19 : 19 Nowe, as soone as he came neere vnto the hoste, he sawe the calfe and the dancing: so Moses wrath waxed hote, and he cast the Tables out of his handes, and brake them in pieces beneath the mountaine.
  • Exod 34:1 : 1 And the Lord saide vnto Moses, Hewe thee two Tables of stone, like vnto the first, and I will write vpon the Tables the wordes that were in the first Tables, which thou brakest in pieces.
  • Exod 34:28-35 : 28 So hee was there with the Lorde fourtie dayes and fourtie nights, and did neither eat bread nor drinke water: and hee wrote in the Tables the wordes of the couenant, euen the tenne commandements. 29 So when Moses came downe fro mount Sinai, the two Tables of the Testimonie were in Moses hande, as hee descended from the mount: (nowe Moses wist not that the skinne of his face shone bright, after that God had talked with him. 30 And Aaron and all the children of Israel looked vpon Moses, and beholde, the skin of his face shone bright, and they were afraid to come neere him) 31 But Moses called them: and Aaron and all the chiefe of the congregatio returned vnto him: and Moses talked with them. 32 And afterwarde all the children of Israel came neere, and he charged them with al that the Lord had said vnto him in mount Sinai. 33 So Moses made an end of comuning with them, and had put a couering vpon his face. 34 But, when Moses came before the Lorde to speake with him, he tooke off the couering vntill he came out: then he came out, and spake vnto the children of Israel that which he was commanded. 35 And the children of Israel sawe the face of Moses, howe the skin of Moses face shone bright: therefore Moses put the couering vpon his face, vntill he went to speake with God.
  • Deut 4:8 : 8 And what nation is so great, that hath ordinances and lawes so righteous, as all this Lawe, which I set before you this day?
  • Deut 4:13 : 13 Then hee declared vnto you his couenant which he commanded you to doe, euen the ten commaundements, and wrote them vpon two tables of stone.
  • Deut 5:22 : 22 These wordes the Lorde spake vnto all your multitude in the mount out of the mids of the fire, the cloude and the darkenes, with a great voyce, and added no more thereto: and wrote them vpon two tables of stone, & deliuered them vnto me.
  • Deut 9:9-9 : 9 When I was gone vp into the mount, to receiue the tables of stone, the tables, I say, of the couenant, which the Lord made with you: and I abode in the mount fourtie daies & fourtie nights, and I neither ate bread nor yet dranke water: 10 Then the Lorde deliuered me two tables of stone, written with the finger of God, and in them was conteyned according to all the wordes which the Lorde had said vnto you in the mount out of the middes of the fire, in the day of the assemblie. 11 And when the fourtie dayes and fourtie nightes were ended, the Lorde gaue me the two tables of stone, the tables, I say, of the couenant.
  • Gen 3:21 : 21 Vnto Adam also and to his wife did the Lord God make coates of skinnes, and clothed them.
  • Rom 7:12-14 : 12 Wherefore the Lawe is holy, and that commandement is holy, and iust, and good. 13 Was that then which is good, made death vnto me? God forbid: but sinne, that it might appeare sinne, wrought death in me by that which is good, that sinne might be out of measure sinfull by the commandement. 14 For we knowe that the Law is spirituall, but I am carnall, solde vnder sinne.
  • 2 Cor 3:13-14 : 13 And we are not as Moses, which put a vaile vpon his face, that the children of Israel should not looke vnto the ende of that which should be abolished. 14 Therefore their mindes are hardened: for vntill this day remaineth the same couering vntaken away in the reading of the olde Testament, which vaile in Christ is put away.
  • Heb 9:4 : 4 Which had the golden censer, and the Arke of the Testament ouerlayde rounde about with golde, wherein the golden pot, which had Manna, was, and Aarons rod that had budded, and the tables of the Testament.
  • Ps 119:127-128 : 127 Therefore loue I thy commaundements aboue golde, yea, aboue most fine golde. 128 Therefore I esteeme all thy precepts most iust, and hate all false wayes.

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