2 Corinthians 3:6

God made Paul a competent servant of a new covenant of the Spirit, not the letter, for the letter kills but the Spirit gives life. The new covenant brings life that the law alone could not.

Cross-references · 40

• John 6:63It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life.
• Rom 7:6But now we are delivered from the law, that being dead wherein we were held; that we should serve in newness of spirit, and not in the oldness of the letter.
• Rom 8:2For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death.
• Jer 31:31Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah:
• Heb 8:6–10But now hath he obtained a more excellent ministry, by how much also he is the mediator of a better covenant, which was established upon better promises.
• 2 Cor 3:14But their minds were blinded: for until this day remaineth the same vail untaken away in the reading of the old testament; which vail is done away in Christ.
• 1 Cor 15:45And so it is written, The first man Adam was made a living soul; the last Adam was made a quickening spirit.
• Heb 12:24And to Jesus the mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling, that speaketh better things than that of Abel.
• Heb 7:22By so much was Jesus made a surety of a better testament.
• Rom 3:20Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in his sight: for by the law is the knowledge of sin.
• Heb 13:20Now the God of peace, that brought again from the dead our Lord Jesus, that great shepherd of the sheep, through the blood of the everlasting covenant,
• Luke 22:20Likewise also the cup after supper, saying, This cup is the new testament in my blood, which is shed for you.
• Rom 2:27–29And shall not uncircumcision which is by nature, if it fulfil the law, judge thee, who by the letter and circumcision dost transgress the law?
• Gal 3:10–12For as many as are of the works of the law are under the curse: for it is written, Cursed is every one that continueth not in all things which are written in the book of the law to do them.
• Matt 13:52Then said he unto them, Therefore every scribe which is instructed unto the kingdom of heaven is like unto a man that is an householder, which bringeth forth out of his treasure things new and old.
• 1 Cor 11:25After the same manner also he took the cup, when he had supped, saying, This cup is the new testament in my blood: this do ye, as oft as ye drink it, in remembrance of me.
• 1 Pet 3:18For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit:
• Deut 27:26Cursed be he that confirmeth not all the words of this law to do them. And all the people shall say, Amen.
• Eph 3:7Whereof I was made a minister, according to the gift of the grace of God given unto me by the effectual working of his power.
• Rom 7:9–11For I was alive without the law once: but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died.
• Col 1:25–29Whereof I am made a minister, according to the dispensation of God which is given to me for you, to fulfil the word of God;
• 2 Cor 5:18–20And all things are of God, who hath reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ, and hath given to us the ministry of reconciliation;
• 1 Tim 4:6If thou put the brethren in remembrance of these things, thou shalt be a good minister of Jesus Christ, nourished up in the words of faith and of good doctrine, whereunto thou hast attained.
• Mark 14:24And he said unto them, This is my blood of the new testament, which is shed for many.
• Matt 26:28For this is my blood of the new testament, which is shed for many for the remission of sins.
• Gal 3:21Is the law then against the promises of God? God forbid: for if there had been a law given which could have given life, verily righteousness should have been by the law.
• 1 Cor 12:28And God hath set some in the church, first apostles, secondarily prophets, thirdly teachers, after that miracles, then gifts of healings, helps, governments, diversities of tongues.
• Rom 4:15Because the law worketh wrath: for where no law is, there is no transgression.
• 1 Cor 3:5Who then is Paul, and who is Apollos, but ministers by whom ye believed, even as the Lord gave to every man?
• John 5:21For as the Father raiseth up the dead, and quickeneth them; even so the Son quickeneth whom he will.
• 2 Cor 3:7But if the ministration of death, written and engraven in stones, was glorious, so that the children of Israel could not stedfastly behold the face of Moses for the glory of his countenance; which glory was to be done away:
• 1 Cor 3:10According to the grace of God which is given unto me, as a wise masterbuilder, I have laid the foundation, and another buildeth thereon. But let every man take heed how he buildeth thereupon.
• Eph 2:5Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved;)
• Heb 9:15–20And for this cause he is the mediator of the new testament, that by means of death, for the redemption of the transgressions that were under the first testament, they which are called might receive the promise of eternal inheritance.
• Rom 4:17(As it is written, I have made thee a father of many nations,) before him whom he believed, even God, who quickeneth the dead, and calleth those things which be not as though they were.
• Rom 1:5By whom we have received grace and apostleship, for obedience to the faith among all nations, for his name:
• 2 Cor 3:9For if the ministration of condemnation be glory, much more doth the ministration of righteousness exceed in glory.
• 1 Tim 1:11–12According to the glorious gospel of the blessed God, which was committed to my trust.
• 1 Jn 1:1That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we have looked upon, and our hands have handled, of the Word of life;
• Eph 4:11–12And he gave some, apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, pastors and teachers;

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