2 Corinthians 3:17 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

Now the Lord is that Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty (emancipation from bondage, freedom). [Isa. 61:1, 2.]

American Standard Version (1901)

Now the Lord is the Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.

Common English Bible

The Lord is the Spirit, and where the Lord’s Spirit is, there is freedom.

Catholic Public Domain Version

Now the Spirit is Lord. And wherever the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

Now the Lord is a Spirit. And where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.

2 Corinthians 3:17 Cross References

Psalm 51:12

Restore to me the joy of your salvation, and sustain in me a willing spirit.

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.

John 8:32

and you will know the truth, and the truth will make you free.”

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 15:45

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

2 Corinthians 3:18

And all of us, with unveiled faces, seeing the glory of the Lord as though reflected in a mirror, are being transformed into the same image from one degree of glory to another, for this comes from the Lord, the Spirit.

2 Corinthians 3:6

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.

Galatians 4:6

And because you are children, God has sent the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, crying, “Abba! Father!”

Galatians 5:1

For freedom Christ has set us free. Stand firm, therefore, and do not submit again to a yoke of slavery.

Galatians 5:13

For you were called to freedom, brothers and sisters, only do not use your freedom as an opportunity for self-indulgence, but through love become enslaved to one another.

2 Timothy 1:7

for God did not give us a spirit of cowardice but rather a spirit of power and of love and of self-discipline.