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

which hath made us able to minister the new testament, not of the letter, but of the spirit. For the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life.

And the very same commandment which was ordained unto life, was found to be unto me an occasion of death.

Written

in that ye are known, how that ye are the epistle of Christ, ministered by us and written not with ink, but with the spirit of the living God; not in tables of stone, but in fleshly tables of the heart.

And the LORD said unto Moses, "Come up to me in to the hill and be there, and I will give thee tables of stone and a law and commandments, which I have written to teach them."

And when the LORD had made an end of communing with Moses upon the mount Sinai, he gave him two tables of witness: which were of stone and written with the finger of God.

And Moses turned his back and went down from the hill, and the two tables of witness in his hand: which were written on both the leaves

And the LORD said unto Moses, "Hew the two tables of stone like unto the first that I may write in them the words which were in the first two tables, which thou brakest.

And he declared unto you his covenant, which he commanded you to do, even ten verses and wrote them in two tables of stone.

These words the LORD spake unto all your multitude in the mount out of the fire, cloud and darkness, with a loud voice, and added no more thereto, and wrote them in two tables of stone and delivered them unto me.

after that I was gone up into the mount, to fetch the tables of stone, the tables of covenant which the LORD made with you. And I abode in the hill forty days and forty nights and neither ate bread nor drank water.

In the same season the LORD said unto me, 'Hew thee two tables of stone like unto the first and come up unto me into the mount and make thee an Ark of wood,

which had the golden censer, and the ark of the testament overlaid round about with gold, wherein was the golden pot with manna, and Aaron's rod that sprung, and the tables of the testament.

Was

Yea, and what nation is so great that hath ordinances and laws so righteous, as all this law which I set before you this day?

Thou camest down also upon mount Sinai, and spakest unto them from heaven, and gavest them right judgments, true laws, good commandments and statutes,

The law of the LORD is an undefiled law, converting the soul; the testimony of the LORD is sure, and giveth wisdom unto simple.

{Mem} O LORD, what love have I unto thy law! All the day long is my study in it.

Wherefore the law is holy: and the commandment holy, just, and good.

And the LORD God made Adam and his wife garments of skins, and put them on them.

That

And Moses came down from mount Sinai, and the two tables of witness in his hand, and yet he wist not that the skin of his face shone with beams of his communing with him.

And as he prayed, the fashion of his countenance was changed, and his garment was white and shone.

And all that sat in the council looked steadfastly on him, and saw his face as it had been the face of an angel.

General references

and were the work of God, and the writing was the writing of God graven upon the tables.

And the very same commandment which was ordained unto life, was found to be unto me an occasion of death.