2 Corinthians 3:6

New Covenant Ministry

⁵ Not that I am myself qualified to consider anything as coming from me myself. No, my qualification comes from God, for ⁶ He has qualified even me as a minister of the new covenant, which is not a written but a spiritual covenant. For the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life. ⁷ Now if the old religious service which resulted in death, although its law was carved in letters of stone, was introduced with a splendor so great that the Israelites could not keep their eyes fixed on Moses' face because of the splendor that was fading from it,

From God

Holy Spirit

Law of Moses

New Covenant

Spirit Gives Life

What Is Written

Christ

Moses

Sin

Luke 22:20

In like manner after supper He took a cup of wine, and said, "This cup of wine is the new covenant to be ratified by my blood, which is to be poured out for you.

John 6:63

The Spirit is what gives life; the flesh does not help at all. The truths that I have told you are spirit and life.

Romans 7:6

But now we have been freed from our relation to the law; we have ended our relation to that by which we once were held in bonds, so that we may serve in a new spiritual way and not in the old literalistic way.

Romans 8:2

For the life-giving power of the Spirit through union with Christ Jesus has set us free from the power of sin and death.

1 Corinthians 3:5

Then what is Apollos? Or what is Paul? Mere servants through whom you came to believe, as the Lord gave each of us his task.

1 Corinthians 11:25

In the same way, after supper, He took the cup of wine, saying, "This cup is the new covenant ratified by my blood. Whenever you drink it, do so in memory of me."

2 Corinthians 3:14

Besides, their minds were made dull; for to this day that same veil remains unlifted, whenever they read the Old Covenant; because it is only through union with Christ that it is removed.

Ephesians 3:7

for which I was called to serve in accordance with the gift of God's unmerited favor which was bestowed on me by the exercise of His power--

Matthew 13:52

He said to them, "Every scribe who has become a disciple in the kingdom of heaven is like a householder who can bring out of his storeroom new furnishings as well as old."

Matthew 26:28

for this is my blood which ratifies the covenant, the blood which is to be poured out for many for the forgiveness of their sins.

Mark 14:24

Then He said to them, "This is my blood which ratifies the covenant, the blood which is to be poured out for many.

John 5:21

For just as the Father raises the dead and makes them live on, so the Son too makes alive any whom He chooses to.

Romans 1:5

through whom we have received God's favor and a commission as an apostle in His name to urge upon all the heathen obedience inspired by faith,

Romans 2:27-29

And shall not the heathen man who is physically uncircumcised, and yet observes the law, condemn you who have the letter of the law and are physically circumcised, and yet break the law?

Romans 3:20

Because no human creature can be brought into right standing with God by observing the law. For all the law can do is to make men conscious of sin.

Romans 4:15

For the law results in wrath alone, but where there is no law, there can be no violation of it.

Romans 4:17

as the Scripture says, "I have made you the father of many nations." That is, the promise is in force in the sight of God in whom he put his faith, the God who can bring the dead to life and can call to Himself the things that do not exist as though they did.

Romans 7:9-11

I was once alive when I had no connection with the law, but when the command came, sin revived, and then I died;

1 Corinthians 3:10

As a skilled architect, in accordance with God's unmerited favor given to me, I laid a foundation, and now another is building upon it. But every builder must be careful how he builds upon it;

1 Corinthians 12:28

And God has placed people in the church, first as apostles, second as prophets, third as teachers, then wonder-workers; then people with power to cure the sick, helpers, managers, ecstatic speakers.

1 Corinthians 15:45

This is the way the Scripture puts it too, "The first man Adam became a living creature." The last Adam has become a life-giving Spirit.

2 Corinthians 3:7

Now if the old religious service which resulted in death, although its law was carved in letters of stone, was introduced with a splendor so great that the Israelites could not keep their eyes fixed on Moses' face because of the splendor that was fading from it,

2 Corinthians 3:9

For if the service connected with condemnation had such splendor, the service resulting in right standing with God will surely far surpass it in splendor.

2 Corinthians 5:18-20

This has all originated with God, for He through Christ has reconciled me to Himself and has given me the ministry of reconciliation.

Galatians 3:10-12

For those who depend on what the law commands are under a curse, for the Scripture says, "Cursed be everyone who does not continue in all the commands that are written in the book of the law, to do them."

Galatians 3:21

Is the law then contrary to God's promises? Of course not. For if a law had been given that was able to impart life, surely, then, right standing would have come through law.

Ephesians 2:1

You too were dead because of the shortcomings and sins

Ephesians 2:5

has made us, though dead because of our shortcomings, live again in fellowship with Christ -- it is by His unmerited favor that you have been saved.

Ephesians 4:11-12

And He has given some men to be apostles, some to be prophets, some to be evangelists, some to be pastors and teachers,

Colossians 1:25-29

In it I have been made a minister in accordance with the trusteeship God entrusted to me for you, that I might prove among you the universal message of God,

1 Timothy 1:11-12

as measured by the glorious good news of the blessed God, with which I have been entrusted.

1 Timothy 4:6

If you continue to put these things before the brothers, you will be a good minister of Christ Jesus, ever feeding your own soul on the truths of the faith and of the fine teaching which you have followed.

2 Timothy 1:11

Of this good news I have been appointed a preacher, an apostle, and a teacher.

Hebrews 7:22

so much the more Jesus has become the guarantee of a better covenant.

Hebrews 8:6-10

But, as the case with Him now stands, He has entered upon a priestly service as much superior to theirs as the covenant of which He is the Mediator is superior to theirs, superior because it has been enacted upon superior promises.

Hebrews 9:15-20

And this is why He is the Mediator of a new covenant, in order that, after He had suffered death for securing redemption from the offenses committed under the first covenant, those who had been invited to share it might obtain the eternal inheritance promised them.

Hebrews 12:24

to Jesus the Mediator of the new covenant, and to the sprinkled blood which speaks a better message than even Abel's did.

Hebrews 13:20

May God, who gives us peace, who brought back from the dead our Lord Jesus, who through the blood by which He ratified the everlasting covenant, is now the Great Shepherd of the sheep,

1 Peter 3:18

For Christ Himself, once for all, died for our sins, the Innocent for the guilty to bring us to God, being put to death in physical form but made alive in the Spirit,

1 John 1:1

It is what existed from the beginning, what we have heard, what we have seen with our own eyes, what we have beheld, what our own hands have touched, about the very message of life --