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 3:16Don’t you know that you are a temple of God, and that God’s Spirit lives in you?
• Eph 2:18For through him we both have our access in one Spirit to the Father.
• 2 Th 2:13But we are bound to always give thanks to God for you, brothers loved by the Lord, because God chose you from the beginning for salvation through sanctification of the Spirit and belief in the truth;
• Gal 5:22–23But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faith,
• Joel 2:28–29“It will happen afterward, that I will pour out my Spirit on all flesh; and your sons and your 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 were realized through Jesus Christ.
• Gal 3:14that the blessing of Abraham might come on the Gentiles through Christ Jesus; that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith.
• 1 Pet 1:2according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, in sanctification of the Spirit, that you may obey Jesus Christ and be sprinkled with his blood: Grace to you and peace be multiplied.
• Isa 59:21“As for me, this is my covenant with them,” says Yahweh. “My Spirit who is on you, and my words which I have put in your mouth, shall not depart out of your mouth, nor out of the mouth of your offspring, nor out of the mouth of your offspring’s offspring,” says Yahweh, “from henceforth and forever.”
• Isa 11:2Yahweh’s Spirit will rest on him: the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and might, the spirit of knowledge and of the fear of Yahweh.
• Isa 44:3For I will pour water on him who is thirsty, and streams on the dry ground. I will pour my Spirit on your descendants, and my blessing on your offspring:
• Acts 2:32–33This Jesus God raised up, to which we all are witnesses.
• Jude 1:19–20These are they who cause divisions, and are sensual, not having the Spirit.
• 1 Cor 12:4–11Now there are various kinds of gifts, but the same Spirit.
• 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 11:4For if he who comes preaches another Jesus, whom we did not preach, or if you receive a different spirit, which you did not receive, or a different “good news”, which you did not accept, you put up with that well enough.
• 2 Cor 3:17Now the Lord is the Spirit and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.
• Gal 3:2–5I just want to learn this from you: Did you receive the Spirit by the works of the law, or by hearing of faith?
• Acts 2:17–18‘It will be in the last days, says God, that I will pour out my Spirit on all flesh. Your sons and your daughters will prophesy. Your young men will see visions. Your old men will dream dreams.
• Rom 8:9–16But you are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if it is so that the Spirit of God dwells in you. But if any man doesn’t have the Spirit of Christ, he is not his.
• Gal 5:5For we, through the Spirit, by faith wait for the hope of righteousness.
• John 7:39But he said this about the Spirit, which those believing in him were to receive. For the Holy Spirit was not yet given, because Jesus wasn’t yet glorified.

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