2 Corinthians 3:7

New Century Version

The law that brought death was written in words on stone. It came with God’s glory, which made Moses’ face so bright that the Israelites could not continue to look at it. But that glory later disappeared.

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 down to Mount Sinai and spoke from heaven to our ancestors. You gave them fair rules and true teachings, good orders and commands.

Psalm 119:174

I want you to save me, Lord. I love your teachings.

Psalm 119:97

How I love your teachings! I think about them all day long.

Exodus 24:12

The Lord said to Moses, “Come up the mountain to me. Wait there, and I will give you two stone tablets. On these are the teachings and the commands I have written to instruct the people.”

Exodus 31:18

When the Lord finished speaking to Moses on Mount Sinai, he gave him the two stone tablets with the Agreement written on them, written by the finger of God.

Exodus 32:19

When Moses came close to the camp, he saw the gold calf and the dancing, and he became very angry. He threw down the stone tablets that he was carrying and broke them at the bottom of the mountain.

Exodus 34:1

The Lord said to Moses, “Cut two more stone tablets like the first two, and I will write the same words on them that were on the first two stones which you broke.

Acts 6:15

All the people in the meeting were watching Stephen closely and saw that his face looked like the face of an angel.

Romans 10:4

Christ ended the law so that everyone who believes in him may be right with God.

Romans 4:15

because the law can only bring God’s anger. But if there is no law, there is nothing to disobey.

Romans 5:20

The law came to make sin worse. But when sin grew worse, God’s grace increased.

Romans 7:10

and I died. The command was meant to bring life, but for me it brought death.

Romans 7:22

In my mind, I am happy with God’s law.

Romans 7:5

In the past, we were ruled by our sinful selves. The law made us want to do sinful things that controlled our bodies, so the things we did were bringing us death.

1 Corinthians 13:10

But when perfection comes, the things that are not perfect will end.

2 Corinthians 3:3

You show that you are a letter from Christ sent through us. This letter is not written with ink but with the Spirit of the living God. It is not written on stone tablets but on human hearts.

2 Corinthians 3:6

He made us able to be servants of a new agreement from himself to his people. This new agreement is not a written law, but it is of the Spirit. The written law brings death, but the Spirit gives life.

2 Corinthians 3:8

So surely the new way that brings the Spirit has even more glory.

Galatians 3:10

But those who depend on following the law to make them right are under a curse, because the Scriptures say, “Anyone will be cursed who does not always obey what is written in the Book of the Law.”

Galatians 3:21

Does this mean that the law is against God’s promises? Never! That would be true only if the law could make us right with God. But God did not give a law that can bring life.

Deuteronomy 4:13

The Lord told you about his Agreement, the Ten Commandments. He told you to obey them, and he wrote them on two stone tablets.

Deuteronomy 4:8

And no other nation has such good teachings and commands as those I am giving to you today.

Deuteronomy 5:22

The Lord spoke these commands to all of you on the mountain in a loud voice out of the fire, the cloud, and the deep darkness; he did not say anything else. Then he wrote them on two stone tablets, and he gave them to me.

Deuteronomy 9:15

So I turned and came down the mountain that was burning with fire, and the two stone tablets with the Agreement were in my hands.

Hebrews 12:18

You have not come to a mountain that can be touched and that is burning with fire. You have not come to darkness, sadness, and storms.

Hebrews 3:3

Jesus has more honor than Moses, just as the builder of a house has more honor than the house itself.

Hebrews 9:4

In it was a golden altar for burning incense and the Ark covered with gold that held the old agreement. Inside this Ark was a golden jar of manna, Aaron’s rod that once grew leaves, and the stone tablets of the old agreement.