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 ministration of condemnation be glory, much more doth the ministration of righteousness exceed in glory.
• Exod 31:18And he gave unto Moses, when he had made an end of communing with him upon mount Sinai, two tables of testimony, tables of stone, written with the finger of God.
• Rom 10:4For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to every one that believeth.
• 1 Cor 13:10But when that which is perfect is come, then that which is in part shall be done away.
• Exod 24:12And the LORD said unto Moses, Come up to me into the mount, and be there: and I will give thee tables of stone, and a law, and commandments which I have written; that thou mayest teach them.
• 2 Cor 3:6Who also hath made us able ministers of the new testament; not of the letter, but of the spirit: for the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life.
• 2 Cor 3:3Forasmuch as ye are manifestly declared to be the epistle of Christ ministered by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; not in tables of stone, but in fleshy tables of the heart.
• Deut 10:1–4At that time the LORD said unto me, Hew thee two tables of stone like unto the first, and come up unto me into the mount, and make thee an ark of wood.
• 2 Cor 3:13–14And not as Moses, which put a vail over his face, that the children of Israel could not stedfastly look to the end of that which is abolished:
• Rom 4:15Because the law worketh wrath: for where no law is, there is no transgression.
• Ps 119:97O how love I thy law! it is my meditation all the day.
• Rom 7:10And the commandment, which was ordained to life, I found to be unto death.
• Deut 9:15So I turned and came down from the mount, and the mount burned with fire: and the two tables of the covenant were in my two hands.
• Deut 9:9–11When I was gone up into the mount to receive the tables of stone, even the tables of the covenant which the LORD made with you, then I abode in the mount forty days and forty nights, I neither did eat bread nor drink water:
• Ps 119:174I have longed for thy salvation, O LORD; and thy law is my delight.
• Luke 9:29–31And as he prayed, the fashion of his countenance was altered, and his raiment was white and glistering.
• Acts 6:15And all that sat in the council, looking stedfastly on him, saw his face as it had been the face of an angel.
• Exod 34:1And the LORD said unto Moses, Hew thee two tables of stone like unto the first: and I will write upon these tables the words that were in the first tables, which thou brakest.
• Rom 7:22For I delight in the law of God after the inward man:
• Exod 32:15–16And Moses turned, and went down from the mount, and the two tables of the testimony were in his hand: the tables were written on both their sides; on the one side and on the other were they written.
• Gen 3:21Unto Adam also and to his wife did the LORD God make coats of skins, and clothed them.
• Exod 34:28–35And he was there with the LORD forty days and forty nights; he did neither eat bread, nor drink water. And he wrote upon the tables the words of the covenant, the ten commandments.
• Exod 32:19And it came to pass, as soon as he came nigh unto the camp, that he saw the calf, and the dancing: and Moses’ anger waxed hot, and he cast the tables out of his hands, and brake them beneath the mount.
• Heb 9:4Which had the golden censer, and the ark of the covenant overlaid round about with gold, wherein was the golden pot that had manna, and Aaron’s rod that budded, and the tables of the covenant;
• Deut 5:22These words the LORD spake unto all your assembly in the mount out of the midst of the fire, of the cloud, and of the thick darkness, with a great voice: and he added no more. And he wrote them in two tables of stone, and delivered them unto me.
• Deut 4:8And what nation is there so great, that hath statutes and judgments so righteous as all this law, which I set before you this day?
• Rom 7:12–14Wherefore the law is holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good.
• Neh 9:13Thou camest down also upon mount Sinai, and spakest with them from heaven, and gavest them right judgments, and true laws, good statutes and commandments:
• Deut 4:13And he declared unto you his covenant, which he commanded you to perform, even ten commandments; and he wrote them upon two tables of stone.
• Ps 19:7–8The law of the LORD is perfect, converting the soul: the testimony of the LORD is sure, making wise the simple.
• Ps 119:127–128Therefore I love thy commandments above gold; yea, above fine gold.

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