2 Corinthians 3:6 - The Text-Critical English New Testament

⁶ 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.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁶ who also hath made us able ministers of the new testament; not of the letter, but of the spirit: for the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁶ [It is He] Who has qualified us [making us to be fit and worthy and sufficient] as ministers and dispensers of a new covenant [of salvation through Christ], not [ministers] of the letter (of legally written code) but of the Spirit; for the code [of the Law] kills, but the [Holy] Spirit makes alive. [Jer. 31:31.]

American Standard Version (1901)

⁶ who also made us sufficient as ministers of a new covenant; not of the letter, but of the spirit: for the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life.

Common English Bible

⁶ He has qualified us as ministers of a new covenant, not based on what is written but on the Spirit, because what is written kills, but the Spirit gives life.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁶ And he has made us suitable ministers of the New Testament, not in the letter, but in the Spirit. For the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.

2 Corinthians 3:6 Tagairtí Cros

Matthew 13:52

Then he said to them, “Therefore every scribe that has been trained as a disciple for the kingdom of heaven is like a master of a house who brings out of his treasure things new and old.”

Matthew 26:28

for this is my blood of the new covenant, which is poured out for many for the remission of sins.

Mark 14:24

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

Luke 22:20

In the same way, he also took the cup after they had eaten supper, saying, “This cup is the new covenant in my blood, which is poured out for you.

John 5:21

For just as the Father raises the dead and gives them life, so also the Son gives life to whomever he wishes.

John 6:63

It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh is of no benefit. The words that I speak to you are spirit and life.

Romans 1:5

through whom we have received grace and apostleship to bring about the obedience of faith for the sake of his name among all the Gentiles,

Romans 3:20

For by the works of the law no flesh will be justified in his sight, for through the law comes knowledge of sin.

Romans 4:15

because the law brings wrath; for where there is no law, there is no transgression.

Romans 4:17

(just as it is written, “I have made yoʋ the father of many nations”). He is our father in the presence of the God in whom he believed, who gives life to the dead and calls into being what does not yet exist.

Romans 7:6

But now we have been released from the law, having died to that by which we were held, so that we may serve in the new way of the Spirit and not in the old way of the written code.

Romans 8:2

For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has set me free from the law of sin and death.

1 Corinthians 11:25

In the same way, he also took the cup after supper, saying, “This cup is the new covenant in my blood. Do this, as often as you drink it, in remembrance of me.”

1 Corinthians 12:28

And those whom God has appointed in the church are as follows: first apostles, second prophets, third teachers, next miracles, then gifts of healing, helping, leading, and various kinds of tongues.

1 Corinthians 15:45

And so it is written, “The first man Adam became a living being.” The last Adam became a life-giving spirit.

1 Corinthians 3:10

According to the grace of God given to me, like a wise master builder I have laid a foundation, and another builds upon it. But each person must be careful how he builds upon it.

1 Corinthians 3:5

Who then is Paul, and who is Apollos, but servants through whom you believed, as the Lord has assigned to each?

2 Corinthians 11:23

Are they servants of Christ? (I am speaking like I am out of my mind!) I am even more so, with far more labors, with beatings beyond measure, with far more imprisonments, and often facing death.

2 Corinthians 3:14

But their minds were hardened, for to this day the same veil remains unlifted when the old covenant is read. Only in Christ is this veil taken away.

2 Corinthians 3:3

You show that you are a letter from Christ, delivered by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God, not on stone tablets, but on tablets of human hearts.

2 Corinthians 3:7

Now if the ministry of death, which was engraved in letters on stone, came with glory, so that the sons of Israel could not gaze at the face of Moses because of its glory (a glory that was fading away),

2 Corinthians 3:9

For if the ministry of condemnation was glorious, the ministry of righteousness abounds in glory even more.

Galatians 3:21

Is the law then opposed to the promises of God? Certainly not! For if a law had been given that was able to give life, truly righteousness would have come through the law.

Ephesians 2:1

You were dead in the trespasses and sins

Ephesians 2:5

made us alive together with Christ even when we were dead in our trespasses—by grace you have been saved.

Ephesians 3:7

I became a servant of this gospel according to the gift of God's grace that was given to me by the working of his power.

1 Timothy 4:6

If yoʋ point these things out to the brothers, yoʋ will be a good servant of Jesus Christ, nourished by the words of the faith and the sound doctrine that yoʋ have closely followed.

2 Timothy 1:11

For this gospel I was appointed to be a preacher, an apostle, and a teacher of the Gentiles.

Hebrews 12:24

And you have come to Jesus, the mediator of a new covenant, and to the sprinkled blood that speaks a better word than the blood of Abel.

Hebrews 13:20

Now may the God of peace, who by the blood of the eternal covenant brought back from the dead our Lord Jesus, the great Shepherd of the sheep,

Hebrews 7:22

Accordingly, Jesus has become the guarantor of a better covenant.

Hebrews 8:13

In speaking of “a new covenant,” he has made the first one obsolete. And what is becoming obsolete and growing old will soon disappear.

1 Peter 3:18

For Christ also suffered for sins once for all, the righteous for the unrighteous, so that he might bring you to God. He was put to death in the flesh, but made alive in the spirit,

1 John 1:1

We declare to you what was from the beginning, what we have heard, what we have seen with our eyes, what we have looked at and touched with our hands, concerning the word of life.