2 Corinthians 3:7

Even the ministry that brought death, the law engraved on stone, came with such glory that Israel could not gaze at Moses' fading radiance. The old covenant was glorious yet temporary.

Cross-references · 31

• 2 Cor 3:9–11For if the ministry of condemnation was glorious, how much more glorious is the ministry of righteousness!
• Exod 31:18When the LORD had finished speaking with Moses on Mount Sinai, He gave him the two tablets of the Testimony, tablets of stone inscribed by the finger of God.
• Rom 10:4For Christ is the end of the law, to bring righteousness to everyone who believes.
• 1 Cor 13:10but when the perfect comes, the partial passes away.
• Exod 24:12Then the LORD said to Moses, “Come up to Me on the mountain and stay here, so that I may give you the tablets of stone, with the law and commandments I have written for their instruction.”
• 2 Cor 3:6And He has qualified us as ministers of a new covenant, not of the letter but of the Spirit; for the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.
• 2 Cor 3:3It is clear that you are a letter from Christ, the result of our ministry, written not with ink but with the Spirit of the living God, not on tablets of stone but on tablets of human hearts.
• Deut 10:1–4At that time the LORD said to me, “Chisel out two stone tablets like the originals, come up to Me on the mountain, and make an ark of wood.
• 2 Cor 3:13–14We are not like Moses, who would put a veil over his face to keep the Israelites from gazing at the end of what was fading away.
• Rom 4:15because the law brings wrath. And where there is no law, there is no transgression.
• Ps 119:97Oh, how I love Your law! All day long it is my meditation.
• Rom 7:10So I discovered that the very commandment that was meant to bring life actually brought death.
• Deut 9:15So I went back down the mountain while it was blazing with fire, with the two tablets of the covenant in my hands.
• Deut 9:9–11When I went up on the mountain to receive the tablets of stone, the tablets of the covenant that the LORD made with you, I stayed on the mountain forty days and forty nights. I ate no bread and drank no water.
• Ps 119:174I long for Your salvation, O LORD, and Your law is my delight.
• Luke 9:29–31And as He was praying, the appearance of His face changed, and His clothes became radiantly white.
• Acts 6:15All who were sitting in the Sanhedrin looked intently at Stephen, and they saw that his face was like the face of an angel.
• Exod 34:1Then the LORD said to Moses, “Chisel out two stone tablets like the originals, and I will write on them the words that were on the first tablets, which you broke.
• Rom 7:22For in my inner being I delight in God’s law.
• Exod 32:15–16Then Moses turned and went down the mountain with the two tablets of the Testimony in his hands. They were inscribed on both sides, front and back.
• Gen 3:21And the LORD God made garments of skin for Adam and his wife, and He clothed them.
• Exod 34:28–35So Moses was there with the LORD forty days and forty nights without eating bread or drinking water. He wrote on the tablets the words of the covenant—the Ten Commandments.
• Exod 32:19As Moses approached the camp and saw the calf and the dancing, he burned with anger and threw the tablets out of his hands, shattering them at the base of the mountain.
• Heb 9:4containing the golden altar of incense and the gold-covered ark of the covenant. Inside the ark were the gold jar of manna, Aaron’s staff that had budded, and the stone tablets of the covenant.
• Deut 5:22The LORD spoke these commandments in a loud voice to your whole assembly out of the fire, the cloud, and the deep darkness on the mountain; He added nothing more. And He wrote them on two tablets of stone and gave them to me.
• Deut 4:8And what nation is great enough to have righteous statutes and ordinances like this entire law I set before you today?
• Rom 7:12–14So then, the law is holy, and the commandment is holy, righteous, and good.
• Neh 9:13You came down on Mount Sinai and spoke with them from heaven. You gave them just ordinances, true laws, and good statutes and commandments.
• Deut 4:13He declared to you His covenant, which He commanded you to follow—the Ten Commandments that He wrote on two tablets of stone.
• Ps 19:7–8The Law of the LORD is perfect, reviving the soul; the testimony of the LORD is trustworthy, making wise the simple.
• Ps 119:127–128Therefore I love Your commandments more than gold, even the purest gold.

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