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

¹⁷ 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

¹⁷ Now the Lord is that Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁷ 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)

¹⁷ Now the Lord is the Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.

Common English Bible

¹⁷ The Lord is the Spirit, and where the Lord’s Spirit is, there is freedom.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁷ Now the Spirit is Lord. And wherever the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.

2 Corinthians 3:17 Cross References

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.

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.

Galatians 4:6

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

John 8:32

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

Galatians 5:1

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

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.

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.

Psalm 51:12

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

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.