2 Corinthians 3:17

The Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom. Life under the new covenant is marked by Spirit-given liberty.

Cross-references · 12

• Rom 8:2For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus made me free from the law of sin and of death.
• John 8:32You will know the truth, and the truth will make you free.”
• Gal 5:13For you, brothers, were called for freedom. Only don’t use your freedom for gain to the flesh, but through love be servants to one another.
• Gal 4:6And because you are children, God sent out the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, “Abba, Father!”
• Gal 5:1Stand firm therefore in the liberty by which Christ has made us free, and don’t be entangled again with a yoke of bondage.
• Isa 61:1–2The Lord Yahweh’s Spirit is on me; because Yahweh has anointed me to preach good news to the humble. He has sent me to bind up the broken hearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and release to those who are bound;
• John 6:63It is the spirit who gives life. The flesh profits nothing. The words that I speak to you are spirit, and are life.
• 2 Tim 1:7For God didn’t give us a spirit of fear, but of power, love, and self-control.
• Rom 8:15–16For you didn’t receive the spirit of bondage again to fear, but you received the Spirit of adoption, by whom we cry, “Abba! Father!”
• Ps 51:12Restore to me the joy of your salvation. Uphold me with a willing spirit.
• 2 Cor 3:6who also made us sufficient as servants of a new covenant; not of the letter, but of the Spirit. For the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.
• 1 Cor 15:45So also it is written, “The first man, Adam, became a living soul.” The last Adam became a life-giving spirit.

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