2 Corinthians 3:8 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

⁸ will not the dispensation of the Spirit be attended with greater splendor?

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁸ how shall not the ministration of the spirit be rather glorious?

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁸ 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)

⁸ how shall not rather the ministration of the spirit be with glory?

Common English Bible

⁸ Won’t the ministry of the Spirit be much more glorious?

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁸ how could the ministration of the Spirit not be in greater glory?

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁸ How shall not the ministration of the spirit be rather in glory?

2 Corinthians 3:8 Cross References

Isaiah 11:2

And the Spirit of the Lord shall rest upon him, the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and might, the spirit of knowledge and the fear of the Lord.

Isaiah 44:3

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.

Isaiah 59:21

“And as for me, this is my covenant with them, say the Lord: my spirit which is upon you, and my words which I have put in your mouth, shall not depart out of your mouth, or out of the mouth of your children, or out of the mouth of your children's children, says the Lord, from this time forth and for evermore.”

John 1:17

For the law was given through Moses; grace and truth came through Jesus Christ.

John 7:39

Now this he said about the Spirit, which those who believed in him were to receive; for as yet the Spirit had not been given, because Jesus was not yet glorified.

1 Corinthians 3:16

Do you not know that you are God's temple and that God's Spirit dwells in you?

2 Corinthians 11:4

For if some one comes and preaches another Jesus than the one we preached, or if you receive a different spirit from the one you received, or if you accept a different gospel from the one you accepted, you submit to it readily enough.

2 Corinthians 3:17

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

2 Corinthians 3:6

who has made us competent to be ministers of a new covenant, not in a written code but in the Spirit; for the written code kills, but the Spirit gives life.

2 Corinthians 3:7

Now if the dispensation of death, carved in letters on stone, came with such splendor that the Israelites could not look at Moses' face because of its brightness, fading as this was,

2 Corinthians 3:9

For if there was splendor in the dispensation of condemnation, the dispensation of righteousness must far exceed it in splendor.

Galatians 3:14

that in Christ Jesus the blessing of Abraham might come upon the Gentiles, that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith.

Galatians 5:5

For through the Spirit, by faith, we wait for the hope of righteousness.

Ephesians 2:18

for through him we both have access in one Spirit to the Father.

2 Thessalonians 2:13

But we are bound to give thanks to God always for you, brethren beloved by the Lord, because God chose you from the beginning to be saved, through sanctification by the Spirit and belief in the truth.

1 Peter 1:2

chosen and destined by God the Father and sanctified by the Spirit for obedience to Jesus Christ and for sprinkling with his blood: May grace and peace be multiplied to you.