2 Corinthians 3:6

New American Bible - revised edition

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.

Cross References

Jeremiah 31:31

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

Matthew 13:52

And he replied, “Then every scribe who has been instructed in the kingdom of heaven is like the head of a household who brings from his storeroom both the new and the old.”

Matthew 26:28

for this is my blood of the covenant, which will be shed on behalf of many for the forgiveness of sins.

Mark 14:24

He said to them, “This is my blood of the covenant, which will be shed for many.

Luke 22:20

And likewise the cup after they had eaten, saying, “This cup is the new covenant in my blood, which will be shed for you. The Betrayal Foretold.

John 5:21

For just as the Father raises the dead and gives life, so also does the Son give life to whomever he wishes.

John 6:63

It is the spirit that gives life, while the flesh is of no avail. The words I have spoken to you are spirit and life.

Romans 1:5

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

Romans 3:20

since no human being will be justified in his sight by observing the law; for through the law comes consciousness of sin. Justification Apart from the Law.

Romans 4:15

For the law produces wrath; but where there is no law, neither is there violation.

Romans 4:17

as it is written, “I have made you father of many nations.” He is our father in the sight of God, in whom he believed, who gives life to the dead and calls into being what does not exist.

Romans 7:6

But now we are released from the law, dead to what held us captive, so that we may serve in the newness of the spirit and not under the obsolete letter. Acquaintance with Sin Through the Law.

Romans 8:2

For the law of the spirit of life in Christ Jesus has freed you from the law of sin and death.

1 Corinthians 11:25

In the same way also the cup, after supper, saying, “This cup is the new covenant in my blood. Do this, as often as you drink it, in remembrance of me.”

1 Corinthians 12:28

Some people God has designated in the church to be, first, apostles; second, prophets; third, teachers; then, mighty deeds; then, gifts of healing, assistance, administration, and varieties of tongues.

1 Corinthians 15:45

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

1 Corinthians 3:10

According to the grace of God given to me, like a wise master builder I laid a foundation, and another is building upon it. But each one must be careful how he builds upon it,

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 11:23

Are they ministers of Christ? (I am talking like an insane person.) I am still more, with far greater labors, far more imprisonments, far worse beatings, and numerous brushes with death.

2 Corinthians 3:14

Rather, their thoughts were rendered dull, for to this present day the same veil remains unlifted when they read the old covenant, because through Christ it is taken away.

2 Corinthians 3:3

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.

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 3:9

For if the ministry of condemnation was glorious, the ministry of righteousness will abound much more in glory.

Galatians 3:21

Is the law then opposed to the promises [of God]? Of course not! For if a law had been given that could bring life, then righteousness would in reality come from the law.

Ephesians 2:1

You were dead in your transgressions and sins

Ephesians 2:5

even when we were dead in our transgressions, brought us to life with Christ (by grace you have been saved),

Ephesians 3:7

Of this I became a minister by the gift of God’s grace that was granted me in accord with the exercise of his power.

Deuteronomy 27:26

“Cursed be anyone whose actions do not uphold the words of this law!” And all the people shall answer, “Amen!”

1 Timothy 4:6

If you will give these instructions to the brothers, you will be a good minister of Christ Jesus, nourished on the words of the faith and of the sound teaching you have followed.

2 Timothy 1:11

for which I was appointed preacher and apostle and teacher.

Hebrews 12:24

and Jesus, the mediator of a new covenant, and the sprinkled blood that speaks more eloquently than that of Abel.

Hebrews 13:20

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

Hebrews 7:22

to that same degree has Jesus [also] become the guarantee of an [even] better covenant.

Hebrews 8:13

When he speaks of a “new” covenant, he declares the first one obsolete. And what has become obsolete and has grown old is close to disappearing.

1 Peter 3:18

For Christ also suffered for sins once, the righteous for the sake of the unrighteous, that he might lead you to God. Put to death in the flesh, he was brought to life in the spirit.

1 John 1:1

What was from the beginning, what we have heard, what we have seen with our eyes, what we looked upon and touched with our hands concerns the Word of life—