2 Corinthians 3:6

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

He has made us competent to be ministers of a new covenant,  not of the letter,  but of the Spirit. For the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.

Cross References

John 6:63

The Spirit   is the one who gives life. The flesh doesn’t help at all. The words that I have spoken to you are spirit and are life.

Romans 7:6

But now we have been released from the law, since we have died to what held us, so that we may serve in the newness of the Spirit  and not in the old letter of the law.

Jeremiah 31:31

‘Look, the days are coming’   #– #this is the Lord’s declaration #– #‘when I will make a new covenant  with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah.

Romans 8:2

because the law  of the Spirit of life  in Christ Jesus has set you  free from the law  of sin and death.

Hebrews 12:24

and to Jesus, the mediator  of a new covenant,  and to the sprinkled blood, which says better things than the blood of Abel.

Hebrews 7:22

Because of this oath, Jesus has also become the guarantee of a better covenant.

2 Corinthians 3:14

but their minds were hardened.  For to this day, at the reading of the old covenant,  the same veil remains; it is not lifted, because it is set aside only in Christ.

1 Corinthians 15:45

So it is written, The first man Adam became a living being;  , the last Adam  became a life-giving spirit.

Romans 3:20

For no one will be justified  in his sight by the works of the law,  because the knowledge of sin comes through the law.

Hebrews 13:20

Now may the God of peace, who brought up from the dead our Lord Jesus #– #the great Shepherd of the sheep   #– #through the blood of the everlasting covenant,

Luke 22:20

In the same way he also took the cup after supper and said, ‘This cup is the new covenant   in my blood,   which is poured out for you.

1 Corinthians 11:25

In the same way also he took the cup, after supper, and said, ‘This cup is the new covenant   in my blood.   Do this, as often as you drink it, in remembrance of me.’

Matthew 13:52

‘Therefore,’ he said to them, ‘every teacher of the law   who has become a disciple in the kingdom of heaven is like the owner of a house who brings out of his storeroom treasures new and old.’

1 Peter 3:18

For Christ also suffered  for sins once for all,  the righteous for the unrighteous, that he might bring you to God.  He was put to death in the flesh  , but made alive by the Spirit,

Deuteronomy 27:26

“Anyone who does not put the words of this law into practice is cursed.” And all the people will say, “Amen! ”

1 Timothy 4:6

If you point these things out to the brothers and sisters, you will be a good servant of Christ Jesus, nourished by the words of the faith  and the good teaching that you have followed.

Ephesians 3:7

I was made a servant of this gospel by the gift of God’s grace that was given to me by the working of his power.

Galatians 3:21

Is the law therefore contrary to God’s promises? Absolutely not! For if the law had been granted with the ability to give life, then righteousness would certainly be on the basis of the law.

2 Corinthians 3:7

Now if the ministry that brought death, chiselled in letters on stones, came with glory,  so that the Israelites were not able to gaze steadily at Moses’s face because of its glory, which was set aside,

1 Corinthians 12:28

And God has appointed these in the church:  first apostles, second prophets, third teachers,  next miracles,  then gifts of healing,  helping, leading, various kinds of tongues.

1 Corinthians 3:5

What then is Apollos? What is Paul? They are servants through whom you believed, and each has the role the Lord has given.

Romans 4:15

because the law produces wrath.  And where there is no law,  there is no transgression.

John 5:21

And just as the Father raises   the dead and gives them life, so the Son also gives life to whom he wants.

Mark 14:24

He said to them, ‘This is my blood of the covenant,   , which is poured out   for many.

Matthew 26:28

For this is my blood of the covenant,   which is poured out for many for the forgiveness of sins.

2 Corinthians 3:9

For if the ministry that brought condemnation had glory, the ministry that brings righteousness overflows with even more glory.

Romans 4:17

As it is written: I have made you the father of many nations  #– #  , in the presence of the God in whom he believed, the one who gives life to the dead  and calls  things into existence that do not exist.

Romans 1:5

Through him we have received grace and apostleship  to bring about  the obedience  of faith for the sake of his name among all the Gentiles,  ,

1 John 1:1

What was from the beginning,  what we have heard, what we have seen with our eyes, what we have observed and have touched with our hands, concerning the word  of life #– #

2 Timothy 1:11

For this gospel I was appointed  a herald, apostle, and teacher,

Ephesians 2:5

made us alive  with Christ even though we were dead  in trespasses. You are saved by grace!

1 Corinthians 3:10

According to God’s grace that was given to me, I have laid a foundation as a skilled master builder,  and another builds on it. But each one is to be careful how he builds on it.

Ephesians 2:1

And you were dead  in your trespasses and sins,

2 Corinthians 3:3

You show that you are Christ’s letter,  delivered  by us, not written with ink but with the Spirit of the living God   #– #not on tablets of stone  but on tablets of human hearts.  ,

2 Corinthians 11:23

Are they servants of Christ? I’m talking like a madman #– #I’m a better one: with far more labours, many more imprisonments, far worse beatings, many times near death.

Hebrews 8:13

By saying a new covenant, he has declared that the first is obsolete. And what is obsolete and growing old is about to pass away.