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2 Corinthians 3:16 — Meaning and Application
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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.
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2 Corinthians 3:1
"Do we begin again to commend ourselves? or need we, as some others, epistles of commendation to you, or letters of commendation from you?"
2 Corinthians 3:2
"Ye are our epistle written in our hearts, known and read of all men:"
2 Corinthians 3:3
"Forasmuch as ye are manifestly declared to be the epistle of Christ ministered by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; not in tables of stone, but in fleshy tables of the heart."
2 Corinthians 3:4
"And such trust have we through Christ to God-ward:"
2 Corinthians 3:5
"Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think any thing as of ourselves; but our sufficiency is of God;"
2 Corinthians 3:6
"Who also hath made ➔ us able ministers of the new testament; not of the letter, but of the spirit: for the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life."
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