2 Corinthians 3:6

The Passion Translation

He alone makes us adequate ministers who are focused on an entirely new covenant. Our ministry is not based on the letter of the law but through the power of the Spirit. The letter of the law kills, but the Spirit pours out life.

Cross References

Jeremiah 31:31

Yahweh declares: “Look, the days are coming when I will enter into a brand-new covenant with the people of Israel and Judah.

Matthew 13:52

He responded, “Every scholar of the Scriptures, who is instructed in the ways of heaven’s kingdom realm, is like a wealthy home owner with his house filled with treasures both new and old.”

Matthew 26:28

For this is the blood that seals the new covenant. It will be poured out for many for the complete forgiveness of sins.

Mark 14:24

he said to them, “This is my blood, which seals the new covenant poured out for many.

Luke 22:20

After supper was over, he lifted the cup again and said, “This cup is my blood of the new covenant I make with you, and it will be poured out soon for all of you.

John 5:21

For just as the Father has power to raise the dead, the Son will also raise the dead and give life to whomever he wants.

John 6:63

“The Holy Spirit is the one who gives life, that which is of the natural realm is of no help. The words I speak to you are Spirit and life. But there are still some of you who won’t believe.”

Romans 1:5

Through him grace cascaded into us, empowering us with the gift of apostleship, so that we can win people from every nation into the obedience that comes from faith, to bring honor to his name.

Romans 3:20

For by the merit of observing the law no one earns the status of being declared righteous before God, for it is the law that fully exposes and unmasks the reality of sin.

Romans 4:15

For the law provokes punishment, and where no law exists there cannot be a violation of the law.

Romans 4:17

That’s what the Scripture means when it says: “I have made you the father of many nations.” He is our example and father, for in God’s presence he believed that God can raise the dead and call into being things that don’t even exist yet.

Romans 7:6

But now that we have been fully released from the power of the law, we are dead to what once controlled us. And our lives are no longer motivated by the obsolete way of following the written code, so that now we may serve God by living in the freshness of a new life in the power of the Holy Spirit.

Romans 8:2

For the “law” of the Spirit of life flowing through the anointing of Jesus has liberated us from the “law” of sin and death.

1 Corinthians 11:25

He did the same with the cup of wine after supper and said, “This cup seals the new covenant with my blood. Drink it—and whenever you drink this, do it to remember me.”

1 Corinthians 12:28

God has placed in the church the following: First apostles, second prophets, third teachers, then those with gifts of miracles, gifts of divine healing, gifts of revelation knowledge, gifts of leadership, and gifts of different kinds of tongues.

1 Corinthians 15:45

For it is written: The first man, Adam, became a living soul. The last Adam became the life-giving Spirit.

1 Corinthians 3:10

God has given me unique gifts as a skilled master builder who lays a good foundation. Afterward another craftsman comes and builds on it. So builders beware! Let every builder do his work carefully, according to God’s standards.

1 Corinthians 3:5

Who is Apollos, really? Or who is Paul? Aren’t we both just servants through whom you believed our message? Aren’t each of us doing the ministry the Lord has assigned to us?

2 Corinthians 11:23

Are they servants of the Anointed One? I’m beside myself when I speak this way, but I am much more of a servant than they. I have worked much harder for God, taken more beatings, and been dragged to more prisons than they. I’ve been flogged excessively, multiple times, even to the point of death.

2 Corinthians 3:14

Their minds were closed and hardened, for even to this day that same veil comes over their minds when they hear the words of the former covenant. The veil has not yet been lifted from them, for it is only eliminated when one is joined to the Messiah.

2 Corinthians 3:3

As a result of our ministry, you are living letters written by Christ, not with ink but by the Spirit of the living God—not carved onto stone tablets but on the tablets of tender hearts.

2 Corinthians 3:7

Even the ministry that was characterized by chiseled letters on stone tablets came with a dazzling measure of glory, though it produced death. The Israelites couldn’t bear to gaze on the glowing face of Moses because of the radiant splendor shining from his countenance—a glory destined to fade away.

2 Corinthians 3:9

For if the former ministry of condemnation was ushered in with a measure of glory, how much more does the ministry that imparts righteousness far excel in glory.

Galatians 3:21

Since that’s true, should we consider the written law to be contrary to the promise of new life? How absurd! Truly, if there was a law that we could keep which would give us new life, then our salvation would have come by law-keeping.

Ephesians 2:1

And his fullness fills you, even though you were once like corpses, dead in your sins and offenses.

Ephesians 2:5

Even when we were dead and doomed in our many sins, he united us into the very life of Christ and saved us by his wonderful grace!

Ephesians 3:7

I have been made a messenger of this wonderful news by the gift of grace that works through me. Even though I am the least significant of all his holy believers, this grace-gift was imparted when the manifestation of his power came upon me. Grace alone empowers me so that I can boldly preach this wonderful message to non-Jewish people, sharing with them the unfading, inexhaustible riches of Christ, which are beyond comprehension.

1 Timothy 4:6

If you will teach the believers these things, you will be known as a faithful and good minister of Jesus, the Anointed One. Nurture others in the living words of faith and in the knowledge of grace which you were taught.

2 Timothy 1:11

And he has anointed me as his preacher, his apostle, and his teacher of truth to the nations.

Hebrews 12:24

And we have come to Jesus who established a new covenant with his blood sprinkled upon the mercy seat; blood that continues to speak from heaven, “forgiveness,” a better message than Abel’s blood that cries from the earth, “justice.”

Hebrews 13:20

Now may the God who brought us peace by raising from the dead our Lord Jesus Christ so that he would be the Great Shepherd of his flock; and by the power of the blood of the eternal covenant

Hebrews 7:22

So all of this magnifies the truth that we have a superior covenant with God than what they experienced, for Jesus himself is its guarantor!

Hebrews 8:13

This proves that by establishing this new covenant the first is now obsolete, ready to expire, and about to disappear.

1 Peter 3:18

Christ suffered and died for sins once and for all—the innocent for the guilty —to bring you near to God by his body being put to death and by being raised to life by the Spirit.

1 John 1:1

We saw him with our very own eyes. We gazed upon him and heard him speak. Our hands actually touched him, the one who was from the beginning, the Living Expression of God.