Key Verse Spotlight
2 Corinthians 3:16 — Meaning and Application
King James Version
“Nevertheless when it shall turn to the Lord, the vail shall be taken away.”
2 Corinthians 3:16
Verse in Context
Understanding the surrounding verses prevents misinterpretation:
But their minds were blinded: for until this day remaineth the same vail untaken away in the reading of the old testament; which {vail} is done away in Christ.
But even unto this day, when Moses is read, the vail is upon their heart.
Nevertheless when it shall turn to the Lord, the vail shall be taken away.
Now the Lord is that Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord {is}, there {is} liberty.
But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, {even} as by the Spirit of the Lord. {by the...: or, of the Lord the Spirit}
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