2 Corinthians 3:3

New American Bible - revised edition

shown to be a letter of Christ administered by us, written not in ink but by the Spirit of the living God, not on tablets of stone but on tablets that are hearts of flesh.

Cross References

Psalm 40:8

so I said, “See; I come with an inscribed scroll written upon me.

Psalm 42:2

As the deer longs for streams of water, so my soul longs for you, O God.

Psalm 84:2

How lovely your dwelling, O Lord of hosts!

Exodus 24:12

The Lord said to Moses: Come up to me on the mountain and, while you are there, I will give you the stone tablets on which I have written the commandments intended for their instruction.

Exodus 31:18

When the Lord had finished speaking to Moses on Mount Sinai, he gave him the two tablets of the covenant, the stone tablets inscribed by God’s own finger.

Exodus 32:15

Moses then turned and came down the mountain with the two tablets of the covenant in his hands, tablets that were written on both sides, front and back.

Exodus 34:1

The Lord said to Moses: “Cut two stone tablets like the former, that I may write on them the words which were on the former tablets that you broke.

Proverbs 3:3

Do not let love and fidelity forsake you; bind them around your neck; write them on the tablet of your heart.

Proverbs 7:3

Bind them on your fingers, write them on the tablet of your heart.

Jeremiah 10:10

The Lord is truly God, he is the living God, the eternal King, Before whose anger the earth quakes, whose wrath the nations cannot endure.

Jeremiah 17:1

The sin of Judah is written with an iron stylus, Engraved with a diamond point upon the tablets of their hearts, And the horns of their altars,

Jeremiah 31:33

But this is the covenant I will make with the house of Israel after those days—oracle of the Lord. I will place my law within them, and write it upon their hearts; I will be their God, and they shall be my people.

Ezekiel 11:19

And I will give them another heart and a new spirit I will put within them. From their bodies I will remove the hearts of stone, and give them hearts of flesh,

Daniel 6:26

Then King Darius wrote to the nations and peoples of every language, wherever they dwell on the earth: “May your peace abound!

Matthew 16:16

Simon Peter said in reply, “You are the Messiah, the Son of the living God.”

1 Corinthians 3:5

What is Apollos, after all, and what is Paul? Ministers through whom you became believers, just as the Lord assigned each one.

2 Corinthians 3:6

who has indeed qualified us as ministers of a new covenant, not of letter but of spirit; for the letter brings death, but the Spirit gives life. Contrast with the Old Covenant.

2 Corinthians 3:7

Now if the ministry of death, carved in letters on stone, was so glorious that the Israelites could not look intently at the face of Moses because of its glory that was going to fade,

2 Corinthians 6:16

What agreement has the temple of God with idols? For we are the temple of the living God; as God said: “I will live with them and move among them, and I will be their God and they shall be my people.

1 Thessalonians 1:9

For they themselves openly declare about us what sort of reception we had among you, and how you turned to God from idols to serve the living and true God

Hebrews 10:16

“This is the covenant I will establish with them after those days, says the Lord: ‘I will put my laws in their hearts, and I will write them upon their minds,’”

Hebrews 8:10

But this is the covenant I will establish with the house of Israel after those days, says the Lord: I will put my laws in their minds and I will write them upon their hearts. I will be their God, and they shall be my people.

Hebrews 9:14

how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal spirit offered himself unblemished to God, cleanse our consciences from dead works to worship the living God.

Joshua 3:10

He continued: “By this you will know that there is a living God in your midst: he will certainly dispossess before you the Canaanites, Hittites, Hivites, Perizzites, Girgashites, Amorites, and Jebusites.

Revelation 2:1

“To the angel of the church in Ephesus, write this: “‘The one who holds the seven stars in his right hand and walks in the midst of the seven gold lampstands says this:

Revelation 2:12

“To the angel of the church in Pergamum, write this: “‘The one with the sharp two-edged sword says this:

Revelation 2:18

“To the angel of the church in Thyatira, write this: “‘The Son of God, whose eyes are like a fiery flame and whose feet are like polished brass, says this:

Revelation 2:8

“To the angel of the church in Smyrna, write this: “‘The first and the last, who once died but came to life, says this:

Revelation 3:1

“To the angel of the church in Sardis, write this: “‘The one who has the seven spirits of God and the seven stars says this: “I know your works, that you have the reputation of being alive, but you are dead.

Revelation 3:14

“To the angel of the church in Laodicea, write this: “‘The Amen, the faithful and true witness, the source of God’s creation, says this:

Revelation 3:22

“‘“Whoever has ears ought to hear what the Spirit says to the churches.”’”

Revelation 3:7

“To the angel of the church in Philadelphia, write this: “‘The holy one, the true, who holds the key of David, who opens and no one shall close, who closes and no one shall open, says this:

1 Samuel 17:26

David now said to the men standing near him: “How will the man who kills this Philistine and frees Israel from disgrace be rewarded? Who is this uncircumcised Philistine that he should insult the armies of the living God?”