2 Corinthians 3:8 - The Scriptures 2009

⁸ how much more esteemed shall the administering of the Spirit not be?

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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?

2 Corinthians 3:8 Cross References

Isaiah 11:2

The Spirit of יהוה shall rest upon Him – the Spirit of wisdom and understanding, the Spirit of counsel and might, the Spirit of knowledge and of the fear of יהוה,

Isaiah 44:3

For I pour water on the thirsty, and floods on the dry ground. I pour My Spirit on your seed, and My blessing on your offspring,

Isaiah 59:21

“As for Me, this is My covenant with them,” said יהוה: “My Spirit that is upon you, and My Words that I have put in your mouth, shall not be withdrawn from your mouth, nor from the mouth of your descendants, nor from the mouth of your descendants’ descendants,” said יהוה, “from this time and forever.”

John 1:17

for the Torah was given through Mosheh – the favour and the truth came through יהושע Messiah.

John 7:39

And this He said concerning the Spirit, which those believing in Him were about to receive, for the Set-apart Spirit was not yet given, because יהושע was not yet esteemed.

1 Corinthians 3:16

Do you not know that you are a Dwelling Place of Elohim and that the Spirit of Elohim dwells in you?

2 Corinthians 11:4

For, indeed, if he who is coming proclaims another יהושע, whom we have not proclaimed, or if you receive a different spirit which you have not received, or a different Good News which you have not accepted, you put up with it well enough!

2 Corinthians 3:17

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

2 Corinthians 3:6

who also made us competent as servants of a renewed covenant, not of the letter but of the Spirit, for the letter kills but the Spirit gives life.

2 Corinthians 3:7

But if the administering of death in letters, engraved on stones, was esteemed, so that the children of Yisra’ĕl were unable to look steadily at the face of Mosheh because of the esteem of his face, which was passing away,

2 Corinthians 3:9

For if the administering of condemnation had esteem, the administering of righteousness exceeds much more in esteem.

Galatians 3:14

in order that the blessing of Aḇraham might come upon the nations in Messiah יהושע, to receive the promise of the Spirit through belief.

Galatians 5:5

For we, in Spirit, by belief, eagerly wait for the expectation of righteousness.

Ephesians 2:18

Because through Him we both have access to the Father by one Spirit.

2 Thessalonians 2:13

But we ought to give thanks to Elohim always for you, brothers, beloved by the Master, because Elohim from the beginning chose you to be saved – in set-apartness of Spirit, and belief in the truth

1 Peter 1:2

chosen according to the foreknowledge of Elohim the Father, set apart by the Spirit unto obedience and sprinkling of the blood of יהושע Messiah: Favour and peace be increased to you.