Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah:
2 Corinthians 3:6 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895 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. More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 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 [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) 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 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 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 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. |
Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah:
And he said unto them, Therefore every scribe who hath been made a disciple to the kingdom of heaven is like unto a man that is a householder, which bringeth forth out of his treasure things new and old.
for this is my blood of the covenant, which is shed for many unto remission of sins.
And he said unto them, This is my blood of the covenant, which is shed for many.
And the cup in like manner after supper, saying, This cup is the new covenant in my blood, even that which is poured out for you.
For as the Father raiseth the dead and quickeneth them, even so the Son also quickeneth whom he will.
It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I have spoken unto you are spirit, and are life.
through whom we received grace and apostleship, unto obedience of faith among all the nations, for his name's sake:
because by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified in his sight: for through the law cometh the knowledge of sin.
for the law worketh wrath; but where there is no law, neither is there transgression.
(as it is written, A father of many nations have I made thee) before him whom he believed, even God, who quickeneth the dead, and calleth the things that are not, as though they were.
But now we have been discharged from the law, having died to that wherein we were holden; so that we serve in newness of the spirit, and not in oldness of the letter.
For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus made me free from the law of sin and of death.
In like manner also the cup, after supper, saying, This cup is the new covenant in my blood: this do, as oft as ye drink it, in remembrance of me.
And God hath set some in the church, first apostles, secondly prophets, thirdly teachers, then miracles, then gifts of healings, helps, governments, divers kinds of tongues.
So also it is written, The first man Adam became a living soul. The last Adam became a life-giving spirit.
According to the grace of God which was given unto me, as a wise masterbuilder I laid a foundation; and another buildeth thereon. But let each man take heed how he buildeth thereon.
What then is Apollos? and what is Paul? Ministers through whom ye believed; and each as the Lord gave to him.
Are they ministers of Christ? (I speak as one beside himself) I more; in labours more abundantly, in prisons more abundantly, in stripes above measure, in deaths oft.
but their minds were hardened: for until this very day at the reading of the old covenant the same veil remaineth unlifted; which veil is done away in Christ.
being made manifest that ye are an 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 tables that are hearts of flesh.
But if the ministration of death, written, and engraven on stones, came with glory, so that the children of Israel could not look stedfastly upon the face of Moses for the glory of his face; which glory was passing away:
For if the ministration of condemnation is glory, much rather doth the ministration of righteousness exceed in glory.
Is the law then against the promises of God? God forbid: for if there had been a law given which could make alive, verily righteousness would have been of the law.
And you did he quicken, when ye were dead through your trespasses and sins,
even when we were dead through our trespasses, quickened us together with Christ (by grace have ye been saved),
whereof I was made a minister, according to the gift of that grace of God which was given me according to the working of his power.
Cursed be he that confirmeth not the words of this law to do them. And all the people shall say, Amen.
If thou put the brethren in mind of these things, thou shalt be a good minister of Christ Jesus, nourished in the words of the faith, and of the good doctrine which thou hast followed until now:
and to Jesus the mediator of a new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling that speaketh better than that of Abel.
Now the God of peace, who brought again from the dead the great shepherd of the sheep with the blood of the eternal covenant, even our Lord Jesus,
In that he saith, A new covenant, he hath made the first old. But that which is becoming old and waxeth aged is nigh unto vanishing away.
Because Christ also suffered for sins once, the righteous for the unrighteous, that he might bring us to God; being put to death in the flesh, but quickened in the spirit;
That which was from the beginning, that which we have heard, that which we have seen with our eyes, that which we beheld, and our hands handled, concerning the Word of life