2 Corinthians 3:9

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Summary

2 Corinthians 3:9

For if the ministration of condemnation be glory, much more doth the ministration of righteousness exceed in glory.

The ministration of condemnation

Hebrews 12:18

The ministration of righteousness

Exceed

2 Corinthians 3:10

1 Corinthians 15:41

Hebrews 3:5

Bible References

The ministration of condemnation

who also made us adequate as servants of a new covenant, not of the letter but of the Spirit; for the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.

You shall set bounds for the people all around, saying, ‘Beware that you do not go up on the mountain or touch the border of it; whoever touches the mountain shall surely be put to death.

All the people perceived the thunder and the lightning flashes and the sound of the trumpet and the mountain smoking; and when the people saw it, they trembled and stood at a distance.

For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men who suppress the truth in unrighteousness,

For what the Law could not do,

weak as it was through the flesh, God did: sending His own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and as an offering for sin, He condemned sin in the flesh,

For as many as are of the works of the Law are under a curse; for it is written, “Cursed is everyone who does not abide by all things written in the book of the law, to perform them.”

For you have not come to a mountain that can be touched and to a blazing fire, and to darkness and gloom and whirlwind,

The ministration of righteousness

He made Him who knew no sin to be sin on our behalf, so that we might become the righteousness of God in Him.

“I bring near My righteousness, it is not far off;
And My salvation will not delay.
And I will grant salvation in Zion,
And My glory for Israel.

“In His days Judah will be saved,
And Israel will dwell securely;
And this is His name by which He will be called,
‘The Lord our righteousness.’

For in it the righteousness of God is revealed from faith to faith; as it is written, “

But the righteous man shall live by faith.”

But now apart from the Law the righteousness of God has been manifested, being witnessed by the Law and the Prophets,

and he received the sign of circumcision, a seal of the righteousness of the faith which he had while uncircumcised, so that he might be the father of all who believe without being circumcised, that righteousness might be credited to them,

But the free gift is not like the transgression. For if by the transgression of the one the many died, much more did the grace of God and the gift by the grace of the one Man, Jesus Christ, abound to the many.

For not knowing about God’s righteousness and seeking to establish their own, they did not subject themselves to the righteousness of God.

But by His doing you are in Christ Jesus, who became to us wisdom from God, and righteousness and sanctification, and redemption,

You have been severed from Christ, you who are seeking to be justified by law; you have fallen from grace.

and may be found in Him, not having a righteousness of my own derived from the Law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness which comes from God on the basis of faith,

Simon Peter, a bond-servant and apostle of Jesus Christ,

To those who have received a faith of the same kind as ours, by the righteousness of our God and Savior, Jesus Christ:

Exceed

For indeed what had glory, in this case has no glory because of the glory that surpasses it.

There is one glory of the sun, and another glory of the moon, and another glory of the stars; for star differs from star in glory.

Now Moses was faithful in all His house as a servant, for a testimony of those things which were to be spoken later;