Key Verse Spotlight
2 Corinthians 3:8 — Meaning and Application
King James Version
“How shall not the ministration of the spirit be rather glorious?”
2 Corinthians 3:8
Verse in Context
Understanding the surrounding verses prevents misinterpretation:
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. {giveth life: or, quickeneth}
But if the ministration of death, written {and} engraven in stones, was glorious, so that the children of Israel could not stedfastly behold the face of Moses for the glory of his countenance; which {glory} was to be done away:
How shall not the ministration of the spirit be rather glorious?
For if the ministration of condemnation {be} glory, much more doth the ministration of righteousness exceed in glory.
For even that which was made glorious had no glory in this respect, by reason of the glory that excelleth.
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