Parallel Verses
Common New Testament
will not the ministry of the Spirit be even more glorious?
New American Standard Bible
how will the ministry of the Spirit fail to be even more with glory?
King James Version
How shall not the ministration of the spirit be rather glorious?
Holman Bible
how will the ministry of the Spirit not be more glorious?
International Standard Version
will not the Spirit's ministry have even more glory?
A Conservative Version
how will the administration of the spirit not be more in glory?
American Standard Version
how shall not rather the ministration of the spirit be with glory?
Amplified
how will the ministry of the Spirit [the new covenant which allows us to be Spirit-filled] fail to be even more glorious and splendid?
An Understandable Version
will not the ministry of the Holy Spirit [i.e., the New Agreement] have [greater] splendor?
Anderson New Testament
how shall not the ministering of the spirit be more glorious?
Bible in Basic English
Will not the operation of the Spirit have a much greater glory?
Daniel Mace New Testament
shall not the ministration of the spirit be more glorious?
Darby Translation
how shall not rather the ministry of the Spirit subsist in glory?
Godbey New Testament
how will not the ministry of the spirit be more in glory?
Goodspeed New Testament
why should not the religion of the Spirit be attended with much greater splendor?
John Wesley New Testament
For if the ministration of condemnation was glory,
Julia Smith Translation
How shall not rather the service of the Spirit be in glory?
King James 2000
How shall not the ministry of the Spirit be more glorious?
Lexham Expanded Bible
how will the ministry of the Spirit not be even more with glory?
Modern King James verseion
shall not the ministry of the Spirit be with more glory?
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
why shall not the ministration of the spirit be much more glorious?
Moffatt New Testament
surely the administration of the Spirit must be invested with still greater glory.
NET Bible
how much more glorious will the ministry of the Spirit be?
New Heart English Bible
won't service of the Spirit be with much more glory?
Noyes New Testament
shall not the ministration of the Spirit be much more glorious?
Sawyer New Testament
how shall not the ministry of the spirit be glorious?
The Emphasized Bible
How shall not, rather, the ministry of the Spirit, be with glory?
Thomas Haweis New Testament
how much more will not the ministry of the Spirit be attended with glory?
Twentieth Century New Testament
Will not the religion that confers the Spirit have still greater glory?
Webster
How shall not the ministration of the Spirit be rather glorious?
Weymouth New Testament
will not the service of the Spirit be far more glorious?
Williams New Testament
why should not this spiritual service be attended with much greater splendor?
World English Bible
won't service of the Spirit be with much more glory?
Worrell New Testament
how shall not rather the ministration of the Spirit be with glory?
Worsley New Testament
shall not the ministration of the Spirit be more glorious?
Youngs Literal Translation
how shall the ministration of the Spirit not be more in glory?
Interlinear
Esomai
Pneuma
Esomai
References
Word Count of 36 Translations in 2 Corinthians 3:8
Verse Info
Context Readings
New Covenant Ministry
7 Now if the ministry that brought death, which was engraved in letters on stone, came with glory, so that the Israelites could not look steadily at the face of Moses because of its glory, fading though it was, 8 will not the ministry of the Spirit be even more glorious? 9 For if the ministry of condemnation has glory, much more does the ministry of righteousness exceed it in glory.
Phrases
Cross References
John 1:17
For the law was given through Moses; grace and truth came through Jesus Christ.
John 7:39
Now this he said about the Spirit, whom those who believed in him were to receive; for as yet the Spirit had not been given, because Jesus was not yet glorified.
Acts 2:17-18
'And in the last days it shall be, God says, that I will pour out my Spirit upon all flesh, and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams;
Acts 2:32-33
This Jesus God raised up again, and of that we are all witnesses.
Romans 8:9-16
But you are not in the flesh, you are in the Spirit, if in fact the Spirit of God dwells in you. And if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ he does not belong to him.
1 Corinthians 3:16
Do you not know that you are God's temple and that God's Spirit dwells in you?
1 Corinthians 12:4-11
Now there are varieties of gifts, but the same Spirit.
2 Corinthians 3:6
who has made us competent as ministers of a new covenant, not of the letter but of the Spirit; for the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.
2 Corinthians 3:17
Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom.
2 Corinthians 11:4
For if someone comes to you and preaches a Jesus other than the one we preached, or if you receive a different spirit from the one you received, or a different gospel from the one you accepted, you put up with it easily enough.
Galatians 3:2-5
This is the only thing I want to find out from you: did you receive the Spirit by the works of the Law, or by hearing with faith?
Galatians 3:14
in order that in Christ Jesus the blessing of Abraham might come to the Gentiles, so that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith.
Galatians 5:5
For through the Spirit, by faith, we wait for the hope of righteousness.
Galatians 5:22-23
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,
Ephesians 2:18
for through him we both have our access in one Spirit to the Father.
2 Thessalonians 2:13
But we are bound to give thanks to God always for you, brethren beloved by the Lord, because God chose you from the beginning to be saved, through sanctification by the Spirit and belief in the truth.
1 Peter 1:2
who have been chosen according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, by the sanctifying work of the Spirit, for obedience to Jesus Christ and sprinkling with his blood: may grace and peace be yours in abundance.
Jude 1:19-20
These are the ones who cause divisions, worldly-minded, devoid of the Spirit.