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 service of condemnation has glory, the service of righteousness exceeds much more in glory.
• Exod 31:18He gave to Moses, when he finished speaking with him on Mount Sinai, the two tablets of the testimony, stone tablets, written with God’s finger.
• Rom 10:4For Christ is the fulfillment of the law for righteousness to everyone who believes.
• 1 Cor 13:10but when that which is complete has come, then that which is partial will be done away with.
• Exod 24:12Yahweh said to Moses, “Come up to me on the mountain, and stay here, and I will give you the stone tablets with the law and the commands that I have written, that you may teach them.”
• 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.
• 2 Cor 3:3being revealed that you are a letter of Christ, served by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; not in tablets of stone, but in tablets that are hearts of flesh.
• Deut 10:1–4At that time Yahweh said to me, “Cut two stone tablets like the first, and come up to me onto the mountain, and make an ark of wood.
• 2 Cor 3:13–14and not as Moses, who put a veil on his face, that the children of Israel wouldn’t look steadfastly on the end of that which was passing away.
• Rom 4:15For the law produces wrath, for where there is no law, neither is there disobedience.
• Ps 119:97How I love your law! It is my meditation all day.
• Rom 7:10The commandment, which was for life, this I found to be for death;
• Deut 9:15So I turned and came down from the mountain, and the mountain was burning with fire. The two tablets of the covenant were in my two hands.
• Deut 9:9–11When I had gone up onto the mountain to receive the stone tablets, even the tablets of the covenant which Yahweh made with you, then I stayed on the mountain forty days and forty nights. I neither ate bread nor drank water.
• Ps 119:174I have longed for your salvation, Yahweh. Your law is my delight.
• Luke 9:29–31As he was praying, the appearance of his face was altered, and his clothing became white and dazzling.
• Acts 6:15All who sat in the council, fastening their eyes on him, saw his face like it was the face of an angel.
• Exod 34:1Yahweh said to Moses, “Chisel two stone tablets like the first: and I will write on the tablets the words that were on the first tablets, which you broke.
• Rom 7:22For I delight in God’s law after the inward man,
• Exod 32:15–16Moses turned, and went down from the mountain, with the two tablets of the testimony in his hand; tablets that were written on both their sides; on the one side and on the other they were written.
• Gen 3:21Yahweh God made coats of animal skins for Adam and for his wife, and clothed them.
• Exod 34:28–35He was there with Yahweh forty days and forty nights; he neither ate bread, nor drank water. He wrote on the tablets the words of the covenant, the ten commandments.
• Exod 32:19As soon as he came near to the camp, he saw the calf and the dancing. Then Moses’ anger grew hot, and he threw the tablets out of his hands, and broke them beneath the mountain.
• Heb 9:4having a golden altar of incense, and the ark of the covenant overlaid on all sides with gold, in which was a golden pot holding the manna, Aaron’s rod that budded, and the tablets of the covenant;
• Deut 5:22Yahweh spoke these words to all your assembly on the mountain out of the middle of the fire, of the cloud, and of the thick darkness, with a great voice. He added no more. He wrote them on two stone tablets, and gave them to me.
• Deut 4:8What great nation is there, that has statutes and ordinances so righteous as all this law, which I set before you today?
• Rom 7:12–14Therefore the law indeed is holy, and the commandment holy, and righteous, and good.
• Neh 9:13“You also came down on Mount Sinai, and spoke with them from heaven, and gave them right ordinances and true laws, good statutes and commandments,
• Deut 4:13He declared to you his covenant, which he commanded you to perform, even the ten commandments. He wrote them on two stone tablets.
• Ps 19:7–8Yahweh’s law is perfect, restoring the soul. Yahweh’s testimony is sure, making wise the simple.
• Ps 119:127–128Therefore I love your commandments more than gold, yes, more than pure gold.

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