2 Corinthians 3:6

James Moffatt - New Testament

and he has further qualified me to be the minister of a new covenant — a covenant not of written law but of spirit; for the written law kills but the Spirit makes alive.

Cross References

John 6:63

What gives life is the Spirit: flesh is of no avail at all. The words I have uttered to you are spirit and life.

Romans 7:6

but now we are done with the Law, we have died to what once held us, so that we can serve in a new way, not under the written code as of old but in the Spirit.

Romans 8:2

the law of the Spirit brings the life which is in Christ Jesus, and that law has set me free from the law of sin and death.

Hebrews 12:24

to Jesus who mediates the new covenant, and to the sprinkled blood whose message is nobler than Abel's.

Hebrews 7:22

And this makes Jesus surety for a superior covenant.

2 Corinthians 3:14

Besides, their minds were dulled, for to this very day, when the Old Testament is read aloud, the same veil hangs. Veiled from them the fact that the glory fades in Christ!

1 Corinthians 15:45

Thus it is written, 'The first man, Adam, became an animate being, the last Adam a life-giving Spirit';

Romans 3:20

for no person will be acquitted in his sight on the score of obedience to law. What the Law imparts is the consciousness of sin.

Hebrews 13:20

May the God of peace who brought up from the dead our Lord Jesus, the great Shepherd of the sheep, with the blood of the eternal covenant,

Luke 22:20

So too he gave them the cup after supper, saying, "This cup means the new covenant ratified by my blood shed for your sake.

1 Corinthians 11:25

In the same way he took the cup after supper, saying, 'This cup means the new covenant ratified by my blood; as often as you drink it, do it in memory of me.'

Matthew 13:52

So he said to them, "Well then, every scribe who has become a disciple of the Realm of heaven is like a householder who produces what is new and what is old from his stores."

1 Peter 3:18

Christ himself died for sins, once for all, a just man for unjust men, that he might bring us near to God; in the flesh he was put to death but he came to life in the Spirit.

1 Timothy 4:6

Lay this before the brotherhood, and you will be an excellent minister of Christ Jesus, brought up on the truths of the faith and on the lessons of the good doctrine you have already followed.

Ephesians 3:7

Such is the gospel which I was called to serve by the endowment of God's grace which was vouchsafed me, by the energy of his power;

Galatians 3:21

Then the Law is contrary to God's Promises? Never! Had there been any law which had the power of producing life, righteousness would really have been due to law,

2 Corinthians 3:7

Now if the administration of death which was engraved in letters of stone, was invested with glory — so much so, that the children of Israel could not gaze at the face of Moses on account of the dazzling glory that was fading from his face;

1 Corinthians 12:28

That is to say, God has set people within the church to be first of all apostles, secondly prophets, thirdly teachers, then workers of miracles, then healers, helpers, administrators, and speakers in 'tongues' of various kinds.

1 Corinthians 3:5

Who is Apollos? Who is Paul? They are simply used by God to give you faith, each as the Lord assigns his task.

Romans 4:15

(What the Law produces is the Wrath, not the promise of God; where there is no law, there is no transgression either.)

John 5:21

for as the Father raises the dead and makes them live, so the Son makes anyone live whom he chooses.

Mark 14:24

he said to them, "This means my covenant-blood which is shed for many;

Matthew 26:28

this means my blood, the new covenant-blood, shed for many, to win the remission of their sins.

2 Corinthians 3:9

If there was glory in the administration that condemned, then the administration that acquits abounds far more in glory

Romans 4:17

(as it is written, I have made you a father of many nations). Such a faith implies the presence of the God in whom he believed, a God who makes the dead live and calls into being what does not exist.

Romans 1:5

through whom I have received the favour of my commission to promote obedience to the faith for his sake among all the Gentiles,

1 John 1:1

It is of what existed from the very beginning, of what we heard, of what we saw, of what we witnessed and touched with our own hands, it is of the Logos of Life

2 Timothy 1:11

Of that gospel I have been appointed a herald and an apostle and a teacher,

Ephesians 2:5

he made us live together with Christ (it is by grace you have been saved);

1 Corinthians 3:10

In virtue of my commission from God, I laid the foundation of the house like an expert master-builder. It remains for another to build on this foundation. Whoever he is, let him be careful how he builds.

Ephesians 2:1

And as with us so with you. You were dead in the trespasses and sins

2 Corinthians 3:3

you make it obvious that you are a letter of Christ which I have been employed to inscribe, written not with ink but with the Spirit of the living God, not on tablets of stone but on tablets of the human heart.

2 Corinthians 11:23

Ministers of Christ? yes perhaps, but not as much as I am (I am mad to talk like this! ), with all my labours, with all my lashes, with all my time in prison — a record longer far than theirs. I have been often at the point of death;

Hebrews 8:13

By saying 'a new covenant,' he antiquates the first. And whatever is antiquated and aged is on the verge of vanishing.