📖WEB · 2 Corinthians 3:9
What does 2 Corinthians 3:9 mean?
"For if the service of condemnation has glory, the service of righteousness exceeds much more in glory."
— 2 Corinthians 3:9 (World English Bible)
Surrounding context
who also made us sufficient as servants of a new covenant; not of the letter, but of the Spirit. For the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.
But if the service of death, written engraved on stones, came with glory, so that the children of Israel could not look steadfastly on the face of Moses for the glory of his face, which was passing away;
won’t service of the Spirit be with much more glory?
For if the service of condemnation has glory, the service of righteousness exceeds much more in glory.
For most certainly that which has been made glorious has not been made glorious in this respect, by reason of the glory that surpasses.
For if that which passes away was with glory, much more that which remains is in glory.
Having therefore such a hope, we use great boldness of speech,
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