2 Corinthians 3:6 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

⁶ who has made us qualified to be ministers of a new covenant, not of letter but of spirit, for the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁶ [It is He] Who has qualified us [making us to be fit and worthy and sufficient] as ministers and dispensers of a new covenant [of salvation through Christ], not [ministers] of the letter (of legally written code) but of the Spirit; for the code [of the Law] kills, but the [Holy] Spirit makes alive. [Jer. 31:31.]

American Standard Version (1901)

⁶ who also made us sufficient as ministers of a new covenant; not of the letter, but of the spirit: for the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life.

Common English Bible

⁶ He has qualified us as ministers of a new covenant, not based on what is written but on the Spirit, because what is written kills, but the Spirit gives life.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁶ And he has made us suitable ministers of the New Testament, not in the letter, but in the Spirit. For the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁶ Who also hath made us fit ministers of the new testament, not in the letter, but in the spirit. For the letter killeth, but the spirit quickeneth.

2 Corinthians 3:6 Krydshenvisninger

Jeremiah 31:31

The days are surely coming, says the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and the house of Judah.

Matthew 13:52

And he said to them, “Therefore every scribe who has become a disciple in the kingdom of heaven is like the master of a household who brings out of his treasure what is new and what is old.”

Matthew 26:28

for this is my blood of the covenant, which is poured out for many for the forgiveness of sins.

Mark 14:24

He said to them, “This is my blood of the covenant, which is poured out for many.

Luke 22:20

And he did the same with the cup after supper, saying, “This cup that is poured out for you is the new covenant in my blood.

John 5:21

Indeed, just as the Father raises the dead and gives them life, so also the Son gives life to whomever he wishes.

John 6:63

It is the spirit that gives life; the flesh is useless. The words that I have spoken to you are spirit and life.

Romans 1:5

through whom we have received grace and apostleship to bring about the obedience of faith among all the gentiles for the sake of his name,

Romans 3:20

For no human will be justified before him by deeds prescribed by the law, for through the law comes the knowledge of sin.

Romans 4:15

For the law brings wrath, but where there is no law, neither is there transgression.

Romans 4:17

as it is written, “I have made you the father of many nations”), in the presence of the God in whom he believed, who gives life to the dead and calls into existence the things that do not exist.

Romans 7:6

But now we are discharged from the law, dead to that which held us captive, so that we are enslaved in the newness of the Spirit and not in the oldness of the written code.

Romans 8:2

For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has set you free from the law of sin and of death.

1 Corinthians 11:25

In the same way he took the cup also, after supper, saying, “This cup is the new covenant in my blood. Do this, as often as you drink it, in remembrance of me.”

1 Corinthians 12:28

And God has appointed in the church first apostles, second prophets, third teachers, then deeds of power, then gifts of healing, forms of assistance, forms of leadership, various kinds of tongues.

1 Corinthians 15:45

Thus it is written, “The first man, Adam, became a living being”; the last Adam became a life-giving spirit.

1 Corinthians 3:10

According to the grace of God given to me, like a wise master builder I laid a foundation, and someone else is building on it. Let each builder choose with care how to build on it.

1 Corinthians 3:5

What then is Apollos? What is Paul? Servants through whom you came to believe, as the Lord assigned to each.

2 Corinthians 11:23

Are they ministers of Christ? I am talking like a madman—I am a better one: with far greater labors, far more imprisonments, with countless floggings, and often near death.

2 Corinthians 3:14

But their minds were hardened. Indeed, to this very day, when they hear the reading of the old covenant, the same veil is still there; it is not unveiled since in Christ it is set aside.

2 Corinthians 3:3

and you show that you are a letter of Christ, prepared by us, written not with ink but with the Spirit of the living God, not on tablets of stone but on tablets that are human hearts.

2 Corinthians 3:7

Now if the ministry of death, chiseled in letters on stone tablets, came in glory so that the people of Israel could not gaze at Moses’s face because of the glory of his face, a glory now set aside,

2 Corinthians 3:9

For if there was glory in the ministry of condemnation, much more does the ministry of justification abound in glory!

Galatians 3:21

Is the law then opposed to the promises of God? Certainly not! For if a law had been given that could make alive, then righteousness would indeed come through the law.

Ephesians 2:1

You were dead through the trespasses and sins

Ephesians 2:5

even when we were dead through our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ—by grace you have been saved—

Ephesians 3:7

Of this gospel I have become a servant according to the gift of God’s grace that was given me by the working of his power.

Deuteronomy 27:26

“ ‘Cursed be anyone who does not uphold the words of this law by observing them.’ All the people shall say, ‘Amen!’

1 Timothy 4:6

If you put these instructions before the brothers and sisters, you will be a good servant of Christ Jesus, nourished on the words of the faith and of the sound teaching that you have followed.

2 Timothy 1:11

For this gospel I was appointed a herald and an apostle and a teacher,

Hebrews 12:24

and to Jesus, the mediator of a new covenant, and to the sprinkled blood that speaks a better word than the blood of Abel.

Hebrews 13:20

Now may the God of peace, who brought back from the dead our Lord Jesus, the great shepherd of the sheep, by the blood of the eternal covenant,

Hebrews 7:22

accordingly Jesus has also become the guarantor of a better covenant.

Hebrews 8:13

In speaking of a new covenant, he has made the first one obsolete, and what is obsolete and growing old will soon disappear.

1 Peter 3:18

For Christ also suffered for sins once for all, the righteous for the unrighteous, in order to bring you to God. He was put to death in the flesh but made alive in the spirit,

1 John 1:1

We declare to you what was from the beginning, what we have heard, what we have seen with our eyes, what we have looked at and touched with our hands, concerning the word of life—