The spirit of the Lord shall rest on him, the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and might, the spirit of knowledge and the fear of the Lord.
2 Corinthians 3:8 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021 how much more will the ministry of the Spirit come in glory? More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 how shall not the ministration of the spirit be rather glorious? Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Why should not the dispensation of the Spirit [this spiritual ministry whose task it is to cause men to obtain and be governed by the Holy Spirit] be attended with much greater and more splendid glory? American Standard Version (1901) how shall not rather the ministration of the spirit be with glory? Common English Bible Won’t the ministry of the Spirit be much more glorious? Catholic Public Domain Version how could the ministration of the Spirit not be in greater glory? Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version How shall not the ministration of the spirit be rather in glory? |
The spirit of the Lord shall rest on him, the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and might, the spirit of knowledge and the fear of the Lord.
For I will pour water on the thirsty land and streams on the dry ground; I will pour my spirit upon your descendants and my blessing on your offspring.
And as for me, this is my covenant with them, says the Lord: my spirit that is upon you and my words that I have put in your mouth shall not depart out of your mouth or out of the mouths of your children or out of the mouths of your children’s children, says the Lord, from now on and forever.
The law indeed was given through Moses; grace and truth came through Jesus Christ.
Now he said this about the Spirit, which believers in him were to receive, for as yet there was no Spirit because Jesus was not yet glorified.
Do you not know that you are God’s temple and that God’s Spirit dwells in you?
For if someone comes and proclaims another Jesus than the one we proclaimed, or if you receive a different spirit from the one you received, or a different gospel from the one you accepted, you put up with it readily enough.
Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom.
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.
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,
For if there was glory in the ministry of condemnation, much more does the ministry of justification abound in glory!
in order that in Christ Jesus the blessing of Abraham might come to the gentiles, so that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith.
For through the Spirit, by faith, we eagerly wait for the hope of righteousness.
But we must always give thanks to God for you, brothers and sisters beloved by the Lord, because God chose you as the first fruits for salvation through sanctification by the Spirit and through belief in the truth.
who have been chosen and destined by God the Father and sanctified by the Spirit to be obedient to Jesus Christ and to be sprinkled with his blood: May grace and peace be yours in abundance.