2 Corinthians 3:6

Modern English Version

who has made us able ministers of the new covenant, not of the letter but of the Spirit. For the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.

Cross References

John 6:63

It is the Spirit who gives life. The flesh profits nothing. The words that I speak to you are spirit and are life.

Romans 7:6

But now we are delivered from the law, having died to things in which we were bound, so that we may serve in newness of the Spirit, and not in the oldness of the letter of the law.

Jeremiah 31:31

Behold, the days are coming, says the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah.

Romans 8:2

For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has set me 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 that speaks better than that of Abel.

Hebrews 7:22

Through this oath Jesus became the guarantor of a better covenant.

2 Corinthians 3:14

Instead, their minds were blinded. For until this day the same veil remains unlifted in the reading of the old covenant, the veil which was done away with in Christ.

1 Corinthians 15:45

So it is written, “The first man Adam was made a living soul.” The last Adam was made a life-giving spirit.

Romans 3:20

Therefore by the works of the law no flesh will be justified in His sight, for through the law comes the knowledge of sin.

Hebrews 13:20

Now may the God of peace, who through the blood of the eternal covenant brought again from the dead our Lord Jesus, the Great Shepherd of the sheep,

Luke 22:20

In like manner, He took the cup after supper, saying, “This cup is the new covenant in My blood which is shed for you.

1 Corinthians 11:25

In the same manner He took the cup after He had supper, saying, “This cup is the new covenant in My blood. Do this, as often as you drink it, in remembrance of Me.”

Matthew 13:52

Then He said to them, “Therefore every scribe who is discipled for the kingdom of heaven is like a man who is master of the household who brings out of his treasure new and old things.”

1 Peter 3:18

For Christ also has once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, so that He might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but made alive by the Spirit,

Deuteronomy 27:26

“Cursed is he who does not confirm all the words of this law by doing them.” And all the people shall say, “Amen.”

1 Timothy 4:6

If you remind the brothers of these things, you will be a good minister of Jesus Christ, nourished by the words of faith and of good teaching, which you have followed closely.

Ephesians 3:7

Of this I was made a minister, according to the gift of the grace of God given to me by the effective working of His power.

Galatians 3:21

Is the law then contrary to the promises of God? God forbid! For if there had been a law given which could have given life, righteousness would indeed come through the law.

2 Corinthians 3:7

If the ministry that brought death, written and engraved on stones, was glorious, so that the Israelites could not look intently at the face of Moses, because of the glory of his countenance, the glory which was to fade away,

1 Corinthians 12:28

God has put these in the church: first apostles, second prophets, third teachers, after that miracles, then gifts of healings, helps, governments, and various tongues.

1 Corinthians 3:5

Who then is Paul, and who is Apollos, but ministers by whom you believed, even as the Lord gave to each one?

Romans 4:15

because the law produces wrath, for where there is no law, there is no offense.

John 5:21

For as the Father raises the dead and gives them life, even so the Son gives life to whom He will.

Mark 14:24

He said to them, “This is My blood of the new covenant, which is shed for many.

Matthew 26:28

For this is My blood of the new covenant, which is shed for many for the remission of sins.

2 Corinthians 3:9

For if the ministry of condemnation is glorious, the ministry of righteousness much more exceeds it in glory.

Romans 4:17

(as it is written, “I have made you a father of many nations” ) before God whom he believed, and who raises the dead, and calls those things that do not exist as though they did.

Romans 1:5

Through Him we have received grace and apostleship for the obedience of faith among all nations for His name,

1 John 1:1

That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we have looked upon, and our hands have touched, concerning the Word of life—

2 Timothy 1:11

for which I was appointed a preacher, an apostle, and a teacher of the Gentiles.

Ephesians 2:5

even when we were dead in sins, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved),

1 Corinthians 3:10

According to the grace of God which has been given to me, as a wise master builder, I have laid the foundation, but another builds on it. Now let each one take heed how he builds on it.

Ephesians 2:1

And you were dead in your trespasses and sins,

2 Corinthians 3:3

For you are prominently declared to be the letter of Christ, prepared by us, written not with ink but with the Spirit of the living God, not on tablets of stone but on human tablets of the heart.

2 Corinthians 11:23

Are they servants of Christ? I speak as a fool. I am more: in labors more abundant, in stripes above measure, in prisons more frequently, often facing death.

Hebrews 8:13

In speaking of a new covenant He has made the first one old. Now that which is decaying and growing old is ready to vanish away.