2 Corinthians 3:10
For indeed, what had been glorious now has no glory because of the tremendously greater glory of what replaced it.
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- Job 25:5 : 5 If even the moon is not bright, and the stars are not pure as far as he is concerned,
- Isa 24:23 : 23 The full moon will be covered up, the bright sun will be darkened; for the LORD of Heaven’s Armies will rule on Mount Zion in Jerusalem in the presence of his assembly, in majestic splendor.
- Hag 2:3 : 3 ‘Who among you survivors saw the former splendor of this temple? How does it look to you now? Isn’t it nothing by comparison?’”
- Hag 2:7-9 : 7 I will also shake up all the nations, and they will offer their treasures; then I will fill this temple with glory.” So the LORD of Heaven’s Armies has said. 8 “The silver and gold will be mine,” decrees the LORD of Heaven’s Armies. 9 “The future splendor of this temple will be greater than that of former times,” the LORD of Heaven’s Armies has declared.“And in this place I will give peace,” decrees the LORD of Heaven’s Armies.”
- Acts 26:13 : 13 about noon along the road, Your Majesty, I saw a light from heaven, brighter than the sun, shining everywhere around me and those traveling with me.
- Phil 3:7-8 : 7 But these assets I have come to regard as liabilities because of Christ. 8 More than that, I now regard all things as liabilities compared to the far greater value of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whom I have suffered the loss of all things– indeed, I regard them as dung!– that I may gain Christ,
- 2 Pet 1:17 : 17 For he received honor and glory from God the Father, when that voice was conveyed to him by the Majestic Glory:“This is my dear Son, in whom I am delighted.”
- Rev 21:23-24 : 23 The city does not need the sun or the moon to shine on it, because the glory of God lights it up, and its lamp is the Lamb. 24 The nations will walk by its light and the kings of the earth will bring their grandeur into it.
- Rev 22:5 : 5 Night will be no more, and they will not need the light of a lamp or the light of the sun, because the Lord God will shine on them, and they will reign forever and ever.
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11 For if what was made ineffective came with glory, how much more has what remains come in glory!
12 Therefore, since we have such a hope, we behave with great boldness,
13 and 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.
14 But 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.
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7 The Greater Glory of the Spirit’s Ministry But 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),
8 how much more glorious will the ministry of the Spirit be?
9 For if there was glory in the ministry that produced condemnation, how much more does the ministry that produces righteousness excel in glory!
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17 But the one who boasts must boast in the Lord.
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17 For our momentary, light suffering is producing for us an eternal weight of glory far beyond all comparison
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7 For who concedes you any superiority? What do you have that you did not receive? And if you received it, why do you boast as though you did not?
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23 and those members we consider less honorable we clothe with greater honor, and our unpresentable members are clothed with dignity,
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40 For God had provided something better for us, so that they would be made perfect together with us.
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5 And above the ark were the cherubim of glory overshadowing the mercy seat. Now is not the time to speak of these things in detail.