2 Corinthians 3:7

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The ministry that brought death was inscribed on stone. Yet, it came with such glory that the people of Israel couldn’t look at Moses’ face. His face was shining with glory, even though that glory was fading.

Cross References

Genesis 3:21

The Lord God made clothes from animal skins for the man and his wife and dressed them.

Nehemiah 9:13

You came from heaven to Mount Sinai and spoke with them from heaven. You gave them fair rules, trustworthy teachings, and good laws and commandments.

Psalm 119:174

I have longed for you to save me, O Lord, and your teachings make me happy.

Psalm 119:97

Oh, how I love your teachings! They are in my thoughts all day long.

Exodus 24:12

The Lord said to Moses, “Come up to me on the mountain. Stay there, and I will give you the stone tablets with the teachings and the commandments I have written for the people’s instruction.”

Exodus 31:18

The Lord finished speaking to Moses on Mount Sinai. Then he gave him the two tablets with his words on them, stone tablets inscribed by God himself.

Exodus 32:19

When he came near the camp, he saw the calf and the dancing. In a burst of anger Moses threw down the tablets and smashed them at the foot of the mountain.

Exodus 34:1

The Lord said to Moses, “Cut two ⌞more⌟ stone tablets like the first ones, and I will write on them the words that were on the first tablets which you smashed.

Acts 6:15

Everyone who sat in the council stared at him and saw that his face looked like an angel’s face.

Romans 10:4

Christ is the fulfillment of Moses’ Teachings so that everyone who has faith may receive God’s approval.

Romans 4:15

The laws in Moses’ Teachings bring about anger. But where those laws don’t exist, they can’t be broken.

Romans 5:20

The laws in Moses’ Teachings were added to increase the failure. But where sin increased, God’s kindness increased even more.

Romans 7:10

and I died. I found that the commandment which was intended to bring me life actually brought me death.

Romans 7:22

I take pleasure in God’s standards in my inner being.

Romans 7:5

While we were living under the influence of our corrupt nature, sinful passions were at work throughout our bodies. Stirred up by the laws in Moses’ Teachings, our sinful passions did things that result in death.

1 Corinthians 13:10

But when what is complete comes, then what is incomplete will no longer be used.

2 Corinthians 3:3

It’s clear that you are Christ’s letter, written as a result of our ministry. You are a letter written not with ink but with the Spirit of the living God, a letter written not on tablets of stone but on tablets of human hearts.

2 Corinthians 3:6

He has also qualified us to be ministers of a new promise, a spiritual promise, not a written one. Clearly, what was written brings death, but the Spirit brings life.

2 Corinthians 3:8

Won’t the ministry that brings the Spirit have even more glory?

Galatians 3:10

Certainly, there is a curse on all who rely on their own efforts because Scripture says, “Whoever doesn’t obey everything that is written in Moses’ Teachings is cursed.”

Galatians 3:21

Does this mean, then, that the laws given to Moses contradict God’s promises? That’s unthinkable! If those laws could give us life, then certainly we would receive God’s approval because we obeyed them.

Deuteronomy 4:13

The Lord told you about the terms of his promise, the ten commandments, which he commanded you to do. Then he wrote them on two stone tablets.

Deuteronomy 4:8

Or what other great nation has such fair laws and rules as all these teachings I am giving you today?

Deuteronomy 5:22

These are the commandments the Lord spoke to your whole assembly on the mountain. He spoke in a loud voice from the fire, the cloud, and the gloomy darkness. Then he stopped speaking. He wrote the commandments on two stone tablets and gave them to me.

Deuteronomy 9:15

So I turned and went down the mountain while it was still burning with fire. I was carrying the two tablets with the promise on them.

Hebrews 12:18

You have not come to something that you can feel, to a blazing fire, to darkness, to gloom, to a storm,

Hebrews 3:3

Jesus deserves more praise than Moses in the same way that the builder of a house is praised more than the house.

Hebrews 9:4

It contained the gold incense burner and the ark of the Lord’s promise. The ark was completely covered with gold. In the ark were the gold jar filled with manna, Aaron’s staff that had blossomed, and the tablets on which the promise  was written.