The Spirit of the Lord will rest on him – a Spirit of wisdom and understanding, a Spirit of counsel and strength, a Spirit of knowledge and of the fear of the Lord.
2 Corinthians 3:8 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised how will the ministry of the Spirit not be more glorious? Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 how shall not the ministration of the spirit be rather glorious? Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Why should not the dispensation of the Spirit [this spiritual ministry whose task it is to cause men to obtain and be governed by the Holy Spirit] be attended with much greater and more splendid glory? American Standard Version (1901) how shall not rather the ministration of the spirit be with glory? Common English Bible Won’t the ministry of the Spirit be much more glorious? Catholic Public Domain Version how could the ministration of the Spirit not be in greater glory? Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version How shall not the ministration of the spirit be rather in glory? |
The Spirit of the Lord will rest on him – a Spirit of wisdom and understanding, a Spirit of counsel and strength, a Spirit of knowledge and of the fear of the Lord.
For I will pour water on the thirsty land and streams on the dry ground; I will pour out my Spirit on your descendants and my blessing on your offspring.
‘As for me, this is my covenant with them,’ says the Lord: ‘My Spirit who is on you, and my words that I have put in your mouth, will not depart from your mouth, or from the mouths of your children, or from the mouths of your children’s children, from now on and for ever,’ says the Lord.
for the law was given through Moses; grace and truth came through Jesus Christ.
He said this about the Spirit. Those who believed in Jesus were going to receive the Spirit, for the Spirit had not yet been given because Jesus had not yet been glorified.
Don’t you yourselves know that you are God’s temple and that the Spirit of God lives in you?
For if a person comes and preaches another Jesus, whom we did not preach, or you receive a different spirit, which you had not received, or a different gospel, which you had not accepted, you put up with it splendidly!
Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom.
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.
Now if the ministry that brought death, chiselled in letters on stones, came with glory, so that the Israelites were not able to gaze steadily at Moses’s face because of its glory, which was set aside,
For if the ministry that brought condemnation had glory, the ministry that brings righteousness overflows with even more glory.
The purpose was that the blessing of Abraham would come to the Gentiles by Christ Jesus, so that we could receive the promised Spirit through faith.
For we eagerly await through the Spirit, by faith, the hope of righteousness.
But we ought to thank God always for you, brothers and sisters loved by the Lord, because from the beginning God has chosen you for salvation through sanctification by the Spirit and through belief in the truth.
according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, through the sanctifying work of the Spirit, to be obedient and to be sprinkled with the blood of Jesus Christ. May grace and peace be multiplied to you.