2 Corinthians 3:8

If the law's ministry had glory, the ministry of the Spirit must be far more glorious. The new covenant surpasses the old in splendor.

Cross-references · 22

• 1 Cor 3:16Do you not know that you yourselves are God’s temple, and that God’s Spirit dwells in you?
• Eph 2:18For through Him we both have access to the Father by one Spirit.
• 2 Th 2:13But we should always thank God for you, brothers who are loved by the Lord, because God has chosen you from the beginning to be saved by the sanctification of the Spirit and by faith in the truth.
• Gal 5:22–23But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,
• Joel 2:28–29And afterward, I will pour out My Spirit on all people. Your sons and daughters will prophesy, your old men will dream dreams, your young men will see visions.
• John 1:17For the law was given through Moses; grace and truth came through Jesus Christ.
• Gal 3:14He redeemed us in order that the blessing promised to Abraham would come to the Gentiles in Christ Jesus, so that by faith we might receive the promise of the Spirit.
• 1 Pet 1:2according to the foreknowledge of God the Father and sanctified by the Spirit for obedience to Jesus Christ and sprinkling by His blood: Grace and peace be yours in abundance.
• Isa 59:21“As for Me, this is My covenant with them,” says the LORD. “My Spirit will not depart from you, and My words that I have put in your mouth will not depart from your mouth or from the mouths of your children and grandchildren, from now on and forevermore,” says the LORD.
• Isa 11:2The Spirit of the LORD will rest on Him—the Spirit of wisdom and understanding, the Spirit of counsel and strength, the Spirit of knowledge and fear of the LORD.
• Isa 44:3For I will pour water on the thirsty land, and currents on the dry ground. I will pour out My Spirit on your descendants, and My blessing on your offspring.
• Acts 2:32–33God has raised this Jesus to life, to which we are all witnesses.
• Jude 1:19–20These are the ones who cause divisions, who are worldly and devoid of the Spirit.
• 1 Cor 12:4–11There are different gifts, but the same Spirit.
• 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 11:4For if someone comes and proclaims a Jesus other than the One we proclaimed, or if you receive a different spirit than the One you received, or a different gospel than the one you accepted, you put up with it way too easily.
• 2 Cor 3:17Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom.
• Gal 3:2–5I would like to learn just one thing from you: Did you receive the Spirit by works of the law, or by hearing with faith?
• Acts 2:17–18‘In the last days, God says, I will pour out My Spirit on all people. Your sons and daughters will prophesy, your young men will see visions, your old men will dream dreams.
• Rom 8:9–16You, however, are controlled not by the flesh, but by the Spirit, if the Spirit of God lives in you. And if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he does not belong to Christ.
• Gal 5:5But by faith we eagerly await through the Spirit the hope of righteousness.
• John 7:39He was speaking about the Spirit, whom those who believed in Him were later to receive. For the Spirit had not yet been given, because Jesus had not yet been glorified.

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