2 Corinthians 3:7

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

But if the ministration of death, written and engraven in stones, was glorious, so that the children of Israel could not stedfastly behold the face of Moses for the glory of his countenance; which glory was to be done away:

The ministration

2 Corinthians 3:6

Romans 7:10

Written

Was

That

Exodus 34:29

Luke 9:29

Acts 6:15

General references

Exodus 32:16

Romans 7:10

Bible References

The ministration

Who has made us able to be servants of a new agreement; not of the letter, but of the Spirit: for the letter gives death, but the Spirit gives life.

And I made the discovery that the law whose purpose was to give life had become a cause of death:

Written

For you are clearly a letter of Christ, the fruit of our work, recorded not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; not in stone, but in hearts of flesh.

And the Lord said to Moses, Come up to me on the mountain, and take your place there: and I will give you the stones on which I have put in writing the law and the orders, so that you may give the people knowledge of them.

And when his talk with Moses on Mount Sinai was ended, he gave him the two stones of the law, two stones on which was the writing made by the finger of God.

Then Moses came down the mountain with the two stones of the law in his hand; the stones had writing on their two sides, on the front and on the back.

And the Lord said to Moses, Make two other stones like the first two; and I will put on them the words which were on the first stones, which were broken by you.

And he gave you his agreement with you, the ten rules which you were to keep, which he put in writing on the two stones of the law.

These words the Lord said to all of you together on the mountain, out of the heart of the fire, out of the cloud and the dark, with a great voice: and he said no more; he put them in writing on the two stones of the law and gave them to me.

When I had gone up into the mountain to be given the stones on which was recorded the agreement which the Lord made with you, I was on the mountain for forty days and forty nights without taking food or drinking water.

At that time the Lord said to me, Make two other stones, cut like the first two, and come up to me on the mountain, and make an ark of wood.

Having a vessel of gold in it for burning perfumes, and the ark of the agreement, which was covered with gold and which had in it a pot made of gold for the manna, and Aaron's rod which put out buds, and the stones with the writing of the agreement;

Was

And what great nation has laws and decisions so right as all this law which I put before you today?

And you came down on Mount Sinai, and your voice came to them from heaven, giving them right decisions and true laws, good rules and orders:

The law of the Lord is good, giving new life to the soul: the witness of the Lord is certain, giving wisdom to the foolish.

O what love I have for your law! I give thought to it all the day.

But the law is holy, and its orders are holy, upright, and good.

And the Lord God made for Adam and for his wife coats of skins for their clothing.

That

Now when Moses came down from Mount Sinai, with the two stones in his hand, he was not conscious that his face was shining because of his talk with God.

And while he was in prayer, his face was changed and his clothing became white and shining.

And all those who were in the Sanhedrin, looking at him, saw that his face was like the face of an angel.

General references

The stones were the work of God, and the writing was the writing of God, cut on the stones.

And I made the discovery that the law whose purpose was to give life had become a cause of death: