2 Corinthians 3:9

If the ministry that condemned had glory, the ministry that brings righteousness overflows with far greater glory. The gospel of righteousness outshines the law of condemnation.

Cross-references · 21

• Rom 3:21–22But now, apart from the law, the righteousness of God has been revealed, as attested by the Law and the Prophets.
• Heb 12:18–21For you have not come to a mountain that can be touched and that is burning with fire; to darkness, gloom, and storm;
• 2 Cor 5:21God made Him who knew no sin to be sin on our behalf, so that in Him we might become the righteousness of God.
• Rom 10:3–10Because they were ignorant of God’s righteousness and sought to establish their own, they did not submit to God’s righteousness.
• Rom 5:15–21But the gift is not like the trespass. For if the many died by the trespass of the one man, how much more did God’s grace and the gift that came by the grace of the one man, Jesus Christ, abound to the many!
• 2 Pet 1:1Simon Peter, a servant and apostle of Jesus Christ, To those who through the righteousness of our God and Savior Jesus Christ have received a faith as precious as ours:
• Phil 3:9and be found in Him, not having my own righteousness from the law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness from God on the basis of faith.
• Gal 5:4–5You who are trying to be justified by the law have been severed from Christ; you have fallen away from grace.
• 1 Cor 1:30It is because of Him that you are in Christ Jesus, who has become for us wisdom from God: our righteousness, holiness, and redemption.
• Gal 3:10All who rely on works of the law are under a curse. For it is written: “Cursed is everyone who does not continue to do everything written in the Book of the Law.”
• 2 Cor 3:10–11Indeed, what was once glorious has no glory now in comparison to the glory that surpasses it.
• 1 Cor 15:41The sun has one degree of splendor, the moon another, and the stars another; and star differs from star in splendor.
• 2 Cor 3:6–7And 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.
• Exod 19:12–19And you are to set up a boundary for the people around the mountain and tell them, ‘Be careful not to go up on the mountain or touch its base. Whoever touches the mountain shall surely be put to death.
• Rom 4:11And he received the sign of circumcision as a seal of the righteousness that he had by faith while he was still uncircumcised. So then, he is the father of all who believe but are not circumcised, in order that righteousness might be credited to them.
• Exod 20:18–19When all the people witnessed the thunder and lightning, the sounding of the ram’s horn, and the mountain enveloped in smoke, they trembled and stood at a distance.
• Isa 46:13I am bringing My righteousness near; it is not far away, and My salvation will not be delayed. I will grant salvation to Zion and adorn Israel with My splendor.
• Jer 23:6In His days Judah will be saved, and Israel will dwell securely. And this is His name by which He will be called: The LORD Our Righteousness.
• Rom 8:3–4For what the law was powerless to do in that it was weakened by the flesh, God did by sending His own Son in the likeness of sinful man, as an offering for sin. He thus condemned sin in the flesh,
• Rom 1:17–18For the gospel reveals the righteousness of God that comes by faith from start to finish, just as it is written: “The righteous will live by faith.”
• Heb 3:5–6Now Moses was faithful as a servant in all God’s house, testifying to what would be spoken later.

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