2 Corinthians 3:6

Twentieth Century New Testament 1904

Our fitness comes from God, who himself made us fit to be ministers of a New Covenant, of which the substance is, not a written Law, but a Spirit. For the written Law means Death, but the Spirit gives Life.

Cross References

Matthew 13:52

Then he added: "So every Teacher of the Law, who has received instruction about the Kingdom of Heaven, is like a householder who produces from his stores things both new and old."

Matthew 26:28

For this is my Covenant blood, which is poured out for many for the forgiveness of sins.

Mark 14:24

"This is my Covenant-blood," he said, "which is poured out on behalf of many.

Luke 22:20

And in the same way with the cup, after supper, saying: "This cup is the New Covenant made by my blood which is being poured out on your behalf.]

John 5:21

For, just as the Father raises the dead and gives them Life, so also the Son gives Life to whom he pleases.

John 6:63

It is the Spirit that gives Life; mere flesh is of no avail. In the teaching that I have been giving you there is Spirit and there is Life.

Romans 1:5

Through him we received the gift of the Apostolic office, to win submission to the Faith among all nations for the glory of his Name.

Romans 3:20

For 'no human being will be pronounced righteous before God' as the result of obedience to Law; for it is Law that shows what sin is.

Romans 4:15

Law entails punishment; but, where no Law exists, no breach of it is possible.

Romans 4:17

As Scripture says-'I have made thee the Father of many nations.') And this they do in the sight of that God in whom Abraham had faith, and who gives life to the dead, and speaks of what does not yet exist as if it did.

Romans 7:6

But now we are set free from the Law, because we are dead to that which once kept us under restraint; and so we serve under new, spiritual conditions, and not under old, written regulations.

Romans 8:2

For through your union with Christ Jesus, the Law of the life- giving Spirit has set you free from the Law of Sin and Death.

1 Corinthians 11:25

And in the same way with the cup, after supper, saying "This cup is the new Covenant made by my blood. Do this, whenever you drink it, in memory of me."

1 Corinthians 12:28

In the Church God has appointed, first, Apostles, secondly Preachers, thirdly Teachers; then he has given supernatural powers, then power to cure diseases, aptness for helping others, capacity to govern, varieties of the gift of 'tongues.'

1 Corinthians 15:45

That is what is meant by the words-'Adam, the first man, became a human being'; the last Adam became a Life-giving spirit.

1 Corinthians 3:10

In fulfillment of the charge which God had entrusted to me, I laid the foundation like a skillful master-builder; but another man is now building upon it. Let every one take care how he builds;

1 Corinthians 3:5

What, I ask, is Apollos? or what is Paul? Servants through whom you were led to accept the Faith; and that only as the Lord helped each of you.

2 Corinthians 11:23

Are they 'Servants of Christ'? Though it is madness to talk like this, I am more so than they! I have had more of toil, more of imprisonment! I have been flogged times without number. I have been often at death's door.

2 Corinthians 3:14

But their minds were slow to learn. Indeed, to this very day, at the public reading of the Old Covenant, the same veil remains unlifted; only for those who are in union with Christ does it pass away.

2 Corinthians 3:3

All can see that you are a letter from Christ delivered by us, a letter written, not with ink, but with the Spirit of the Living God, not on 'tablets of stone,' but on 'tablets of human hearts.'

2 Corinthians 3:7

If the system of religion which involved Death, embodied in a written Law and engraved on stones, began amid such glory, that the Israelites were unable to gaze at the face of Moses on account of its glory, though it was but a passing glory,

2 Corinthians 3:9

For, if there was a glory in the religion that involved condemnation, far greater is the glory of the religion that confers righteousness!

Galatians 3:21

Does that set the Law in opposition to God's promises? Heaven forbid! For, if a Law had been given capable of bestowing Life, then righteousness would have actually owed its existence to Law.

Ephesians 2:1

You yourselves were once dead because of your offenses and sins.

Ephesians 2:5

Even though we were 'dead' because of our offenses, gave Life to us in giving Life to the Christ. (By God's loving-kindness you have been saved.)

Ephesians 3:7

Of this Good News I became a minister, in virtue of the charge with which God entrusted me in the exercise of his power--

1 Timothy 4:6

Put all this before the Brethren, and you will be a good servant of Christ Jesus, sustained by the precepts of the Faith and of that Good Teaching by which you have guided your life.

2 Timothy 1:11

of which I was myself appointed a Herald and Apostle, and Teacher.

Hebrews 12:24

to Jesus, the intermediary of a new Covenant, and to the Sprinkled Blood that tells of better things than the blood of Abel.

Hebrews 13:20

May God, the source of all peace, who brought back from the dead him who, 'by virtue of the blood that rendered valid the unchangeable Covenant, is the Great Shepherd of God's Sheep,' Jesus, our Lord--

Hebrews 7:22

And the oath shows the corresponding superiority of the Covenant of which Jesus is appointed the surety.

Hebrews 8:13

By speaking of a 'new' Covenant, God at once renders the former Covenant obsolete; and whatever becomes obsolete and loses its force is virtually annulled.

1 Peter 3:18

For Christ himself died to atone for sins once for all--the good on behalf of the bad--that he might bring you to God; his body being put to death, but his spirit entering upon new Life.

1 John 1:1

It is of what has been in existence from the Beginning, of what we have heard, of what we have seen with our eyes, of what we watched reverently and touched with our hands--it is about the Word who is the Life that we are now writing.