2 Corinthians 3:13

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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.

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  • Exod 34:33-35 : 33 When Moses finished speaking with them, he would put a veil on his face. 34 But when Moses went in before the LORD to speak with him, he would remove the veil until he came out. Then he would come out and tell the Israelites what he had been commanded. 35 When the Israelites would see the face of Moses, that the skin of Moses’ face shone, Moses would put the veil on his face again, until he went in to speak with the LORD.
  • 2 Cor 3:7 : 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),
  • Eph 2:14-15 : 14 For he is our peace, the one who made both groups into one and who destroyed the middle wall of partition, the hostility, 15 when he nullified in his flesh the law of commandments in decrees. He did this to create in himself one new man out of two, thus making peace,
  • Col 2:17 : 17 these are only the shadow of the things to come, but the reality is Christ!
  • Heb 10:1-9 : 1 Concluding Exposition: Old and New Sacrifices Contrasted For the law possesses a shadow of the good things to come but not the reality itself, and is therefore completely unable, by the same sacrifices offered continually, year after year, to perfect those who come to worship. 2 For otherwise would they not have ceased to be offered, since the worshipers would have been purified once for all and so have no further consciousness of sin? 3 But in those sacrifices there is a reminder of sins year after year. 4 For it is impossible for the blood of bulls and goats to take away sins. 5 So when he came into the world, he said,“Sacrifice and offering you did not desire, but a body you prepared for me. 6 “Whole burnt offerings and sin-offerings you took no delight in. 7 “Then I said,‘Here I am: I have come– it is written of me in the scroll of the book– to do your will, O God.’” 8 When he says above,“Sacrifices and offerings and whole burnt offerings and sin-offerings you did not desire nor did you take delight in them”(which are offered according to the law), 9 then he says,“Here I am: I have come to do your will.” He does away with the first to establish the second.
  • Gal 3:23-24 : 23 Sons of God Are Heirs of Promise Now before faith came we were held in custody under the law, being kept as prisoners until the coming faith would be revealed. 24 Thus the law had become our guardian until Christ, so that we could be declared righteous by faith.
  • Rom 10:4 : 4 For Christ is the end of the law, with the result that there is righteousness for everyone who believes.

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  • 2 Cor 3:14-16
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    14But 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.

    15But until this very day whenever Moses is read, a veil lies over their minds,

    16but when one turns to the Lord, the veil is removed.

  • 2 Cor 3:6-8
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    6who 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.

    7The 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),

    8how much more glorious will the ministry of the Spirit be?

  • Exod 34:33-35
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    33When Moses finished speaking with them, he would put a veil on his face.

    34But when Moses went in before the LORD to speak with him, he would remove the veil until he came out. Then he would come out and tell the Israelites what he had been commanded.

    35When the Israelites would see the face of Moses, that the skin of Moses’ face shone, Moses would put the veil on his face again, until he went in to speak with the LORD.

  • 2 Cor 3:10-12
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    10For indeed, what had been glorious now has no glory because of the tremendously greater glory of what replaced it.

    11For if what was made ineffective came with glory, how much more has what remains come in glory!

    12Therefore, since we have such a hope, we behave with great boldness,

  • Exod 34:29-30
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    29The Radiant Face of Moses Now when Moses came down from Mount Sinai with the two tablets of the testimony in his hand– when he came down from the mountain, Moses did not know that the skin of his face shone while he talked with him.

    30When Aaron and all the Israelites saw Moses, the skin of his face shone; and they were afraid to approach him.

  • Heb 8:5
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    5The place where they serve is a sketch and shadow of the heavenly sanctuary, just as Moses was warned by God as he was about to complete the tabernacle. For he says,“See that you make everything according to the design shown to you on the mountain.”

  • 2 Cor 3:18
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    18And 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.

  • Heb 8:13
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    13When he speaks of a new covenant, he makes the first obsolete. Now what is growing obsolete and aging is about to disappear.

  • Heb 12:18
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    18For you have not come to something that can be touched, to a burning fire and darkness and gloom and a whirlwind

  • Matt 17:2-3
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    2And he was transfigured before them. His face shone like the sun, and his clothes became white as light.

    3Then Moses and Elijah also appeared before them, talking with him.

  • 2 Cor 4:3-4
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    3But even if our gospel is veiled, it is veiled only to those who are perishing,

    4among whom the god of this age has blinded the minds of those who do not believe so they would not see the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God.

  • 2 Cor 4:18
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    18because we are not looking at what can be seen but at what cannot be seen. For what can be seen is temporary, but what cannot be seen is eternal.

  • Heb 9:3
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    3And after the second curtain there was a tent called the holy of holies.

  • 2 Cor 3:3
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    3revealing 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.

  • Num 12:8
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    8With him I will speak face to face, openly, and not in riddles; and he will see the form of the LORD. Why then were you not afraid to speak against my servant Moses?”

  • Heb 3:5
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    5Now Moses was faithful in all God’s house as a servant, to testify to the things that would be spoken.

  • Heb 11:23
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    23By faith, when Moses was born, his parents hid him for three months, because they saw the child was beautiful and they were not afraid of the king’s edict.

  • Gal 3:25
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    25But now that faith has come, we are no longer under a guardian.

  • Luke 9:33
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    33Then as the men were starting to leave, Peter said to Jesus,“Master, it is good for us to be here. Let us make three shelters, one for you and one for Moses and one for Elijah”– not knowing what he was saying.

  • Exod 33:5
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    5For the LORD had said to Moses,“Tell the Israelites,‘You are a stiff-necked people. If I went up among you for a moment, I might destroy you. Now take off your ornaments, that I may know what I should do to you.’”

  • Heb 9:24
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    24For Christ did not enter a sanctuary made with hands– the representation of the true sanctuary– but into heaven itself, and he appears now in God’s presence for us.

  • Heb 9:11
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    11Christ’s Service in the Heavenly Sanctuary But now Christ has come as the high priest of the good things to come. He passed through the greater and more perfect tent not made with hands, that is, not of this creation,

  • Heb 10:20
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    20by the fresh and living way that he inaugurated for us through the curtain, that is, through his flesh,

  • John 3:14
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    14Just as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, so must the Son of Man be lifted up,

  • Heb 10:1
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    1Concluding Exposition: Old and New Sacrifices Contrasted For the law possesses a shadow of the good things to come but not the reality itself, and is therefore completely unable, by the same sacrifices offered continually, year after year, to perfect those who come to worship.

  • Mark 9:4
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    4Then Elijah appeared before them along with Moses, and they were talking with Jesus.

  • Exod 33:23
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    23Then I will take away my hand, and you will see my back, but my face must not be seen.”

  • Heb 9:8
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    8The Holy Spirit is making clear that the way into the holy place had not yet appeared as long as the old tabernacle was standing.

  • Exod 40:35
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    35Moses was not able to enter the tent of meeting because the cloud settled on it and the glory of the LORD filled the tabernacle.

  • Gal 3:17
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    17What I am saying is this: The law that came four hundred thirty years later does not cancel a covenant previously ratified by God, so as to invalidate the promise.

  • Col 3:9
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    9Do not lie to one another since you have put off the old man with its practices

  • Num 14:41
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    41But Moses said,“Why are you now transgressing the commandment of the LORD? It will not succeed!

  • 1 Pet 3:3
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    3Let your beauty not be external– the braiding of hair and wearing of gold jewelry or fine clothes–

  • Isa 25:7
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    7On this mountain he will swallow up the shroud that is over all the peoples, the woven covering that is over all the nations;

  • Heb 12:21
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    21In fact, the scene was so terrifying that Moses said,“I shudder with fear.”

  • 1 Cor 13:10
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    10but when what is perfect comes, the partial will be set aside.

  • Exod 24:18
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    18Moses went into the cloud when he went up the mountain, and Moses was on the mountain forty days and forty nights.

  • Exod 3:6
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    6He added,“I am the God of your father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.” Then Moses hid his face, because he was afraid to look at God.

  • Rom 3:18
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    18“There is no fear of God before their eyes.”