2 Corinthians 3:9

New Covenant Ministry

⁸ why should not this spiritual service be attended with much greater splendor? ⁹ For if the service connected with condemnation had such splendor, the service resulting in right standing with God will surely far surpass it in splendor. ¹⁰ For on account of its surpassing splendor, what was once so splendid has now no splendor at all.

New Covenant

With God

Old Covenant

Hebrews 12:18-21

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

Romans 3:21-22

But now God's way of giving men right standing with Himself has come to light; a way without connection with the law, and yet a way to which the law and the prophets testify.

Romans 1:17-18

For in the good news God's Way of man's right standing with Him is uncovered, the Way of faith that leads to greater faith, just as the Scripture says, "The upright man must live by faith."

Romans 4:11

Afterward he received the mark of circumcision as God's seal of his right standing with Him on condition of faith which he had before he was circumcised, that he might be the forefather of all who have faith while still uncircumcised, that they might have their faith credited to them as right standing with God;

Romans 5:15-21

But God's free gift is not at all to be compared with the offense. For if by one man's offense the whole race of men have died, to a much greater degree God's favor and His gift imparted by His favor through the one man Jesus Christ, has overflowed for the whole race of men.

Romans 8:3-4

For though the law could not do it, because it was made helpless through our lower nature, yet God, by sending His own Son in a body similar to that of our lower nature, and as a sacrifice for sin, passed sentence upon sin through His body,

Romans 10:3-10

For they were ignorant of God's way of right standing and were trying to set up one of their own, and so would not surrender to God's way of right standing.

1 Corinthians 1:30

So you owe it all to Him through union with Christ Jesus, whom God has made our wisdom, our means of right standing, our consecration, and our redemption,

1 Corinthians 15:41

One kind of splendor belongs to the sun, another to the moon, and another to the stars; yes, one star differs from another in splendor.

2 Corinthians 3:6-7

He has qualified even me as a minister of the new covenant, which is not a written but a spiritual covenant. For the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.

2 Corinthians 3:10-11

For on account of its surpassing splendor, what was once so splendid has now no splendor at all.

2 Corinthians 5:21

He made Him who personally knew nothing of sin to be a sin-offering for us, so that through union with Him we might come into right standing with God.

Galatians 3:10

For those who depend on what the law commands are under a curse, for the Scripture says, "Cursed be everyone who does not continue in all the commands that are written in the book of the law, to do them."

Galatians 5:4-5

You people, whoever you are among you, who try to get into right standing with God, through law have cut yourselves off from Christ, you have missed the way of God's favor.

Philippians 3:9

and be actually in union with Him, not having a supposed right standing with God which depends on my doing what the law commands, but one that comes through faith in Christ, the real right standing with God which originates from Him and rests on faith.

Hebrews 3:5-6

Now Moses was faithful in all the house of God, yet only as a servant to bear witness to the message that should be spoken,

2 Peter 1:1

Simon Peter, a slave and apostle of Jesus Christ, to those who through the righteousness of our God and Saviour Jesus Christ have obtained the same precious faith that we have: