The Spirit is the one who gives life. The flesh doesn’t help at all. The words that I have spoken to you are spirit and are life.
2 Corinthians 3:17 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Now the Lord is that Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty (emancipation from bondage, freedom). [Isa. 61:1, 2.] American Standard Version (1901) Now the Lord is the Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty. Common English Bible The Lord is the Spirit, and where the Lord’s Spirit is, there is freedom. Catholic Public Domain Version Now the Spirit is Lord. And wherever the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Now the Lord is a Spirit. And where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty. |
The Spirit is the one who gives life. The flesh doesn’t help at all. The words that I have spoken to you are spirit and are life.
because the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has set you free from the law of sin and death.
So it is written, The first man Adam became a living being; , the last Adam became a life-giving spirit.
We all, with unveiled faces, are looking as in a mirror at , the glory of the Lord and are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory; this is from the Lord who is the Spirit.
He has made us competent to be ministers of a new covenant, not of the letter, but of the Spirit. For the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.
And because you are sons, God sent the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, crying, ‘Abba, Father! ’
For freedom, Christ set us free. Stand firm, then, and don’t submit again to a yoke of slavery.
For you were called to be free, brothers and sisters; only don’t use this freedom as an opportunity for the flesh, but serve one another through love.
For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but one of power, , love, and sound judgement.