2 Corinthians 3:16

World English Bible (2000)

But whenever one turns to the Lord, the veil is taken away.

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  • Exod 34:34 : 34 But when Moses went in before Yahweh to speak with him, he took the veil off, until he came out; and he came out, and spoke to the children of Israel that which he was commanded.
  • Isa 25:7 : 7 He will destroy in this mountain the surface of the covering that covers all peoples, and the veil that is spread over all nations.
  • Isa 29:18 : 18 In that day, the deaf will hear the words of the book, and the eyes of the blind will see out of obscurity and out of darkness.
  • Isa 54:13 : 13 All your children shall be taught of Yahweh; and great shall be the peace of your children.
  • Jer 31:34 : 34 and they shall teach no more every man his neighbor, and every man his brother, saying, Know Yahweh; for they shall all know me, from the least of them to the greatest of them, says Yahweh: for I will forgive their iniquity, and their sin will I remember no more.
  • Lam 3:40 : 40 Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to Yahweh.
  • Hos 3:4-5 : 4 For the children of Israel shall live many days without king, and without prince, and without sacrifice, and without sacred stone, and without ephod or idols. 5 Afterward the children of Israel shall return, and seek Yahweh their God, and David their king, and shall come with trembling to Yahweh and to his blessings in the last days.
  • John 6:45-46 : 45 It is written in the prophets, 'They will all be taught by God.' Therefore everyone who hears from the Father, and has learned, comes to me. 46 Not that anyone has seen the Father, except he who is from God. He has seen the Father.
  • Rom 11:23 : 23 They also, if they don't continue in their unbelief, will be grafted in, for God is able to graft them in again.
  • Rom 11:25-27 : 25 For I don't desire you to be ignorant, brothers, of this mystery, so that you won't be wise in your own conceits, that a partial hardening has happened to Israel, until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in, 26 and so all Israel will be saved. Even as it is written, "There will come out of Zion the Deliverer, and he will turn away ungodliness from Jacob. 27 This is my covenant to them, when I will take away their sins."
  • Deut 4:30 : 30 When you are in oppression, and all these things are come on you, in the latter days you shall return to Yahweh your God, and listen to his voice:
  • Deut 30:10 : 10 if you shall obey the voice of Yahweh your God, to keep his commandments and his statutes which are written in this book of the law; if you turn to Yahweh your God with all your heart, and with all your soul.

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