2 Corinthians 3:9

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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

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2 Corinthians 3:10

1 Corinthians 15:41

Hebrews 3:5

Bible References

The ministration of condemnation

and he has qualified me to serve him in the interests of a new agreement, not in writing but of spirit. For what is written kills, but the Spirit gives life.

For God's anger is breaking forth from heaven against all the impiety and wickedness of the men who in their wickedness are suppressing the truth.

For though it was impossible for the Law to do it, hampered as it was by our physical limitations, God, by sending his own Son in our sinful physical form, as a sin-offering, put his condemnation upon sin through his physical nature,

For there is a curse upon all who rely on obedience to the Law, for the Scripture says, "Cursed be anyone who does not stand by everything that is written in the Book of the Law and obey it."

For it is no tangible blazing fire that you have come up to, no blackness and darkness and storm,

The ministration of righteousness

He made him who knew nothing of sin to be sin, for our sake, so that through union with him we might become God's uprightness.

In it God's way of uprightness is disclosed through faith and for faith, just as the Scripture says, "The upright will have life because of his faith."

But now God's way of uprightness has been disclosed without any reference to law, though the Law and the Prophets bear witness to it.

and he was afterward given the mark of circumcision as the stamp of God's acknowledgment of the uprightness based on faith that was his before he was circumcised, so that he should be the forefather of all who, without being circumcised, have faith and so are credited with uprightness,

But there is no comparison between God's gift and that offense. For if one man's offense made the mass of mankind die, God's mercy and his gift given through the favor of the one man Jesus Christ have far more powerfully affected mankind.

For in their ignorance of God's way of uprightness and in the attempt to set up one of their own, they refused to conform to God's way of uprightness.

But you are his children, through your union with Christ Jesus, whom God has made our wisdom??ur uprightness and consecration and redemption,

You people who propose to be made upright by law have finished with Christ; you have lost your hold upon God's favor.

and be known to be united to him, with any uprightness I may have not based on law but coming through faith in Christ??he uprightness that comes from God through faith.

Simon Peter, a slave and apostle of Jesus Christ, to those who through the uprightness of our God and Savior Jesus Christ have been given a faith as privileged as ours;

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For in comparison with its surpassing splendor, what was splendid has come to have no splendor at all.

The sun has one kind of beauty, and the moon another, and the stars another; why, one star differs from another in beauty.

Now the faithfulness of Moses in all the house of God was that of a servant, in faithfully repeating what he was told to say;