2 Corinthians 3:8
will not the ministry of the Spirit be even more glorious?
BSB
ASV
how shall not rather the ministration of the spirit be with glory?
KJV
How shall not the ministration of the spirit be rather glorious?
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
COMMENTARY ON PAUL'S EPISTLES (384)
It is obvious that the grace of the law of faith is greater than that of the law of Moses. For although the law of Moses was intended to be beneficial, it became the law of death because it was flouted. Then, because there was …
The ministration of the Spirit - The Gospel dispensation, which gives the true spiritual sense of the law. Be rather glorious? - Forasmuch as the thing signified is of infinitely more consequence than that by which it is signified. The Thing bread will preserve a man alive; the Word bread can give life to nothing.
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1 Corinthians 3:16Do you not know that you yourselves are God’s temple, and that God’s Spirit dwells in you?
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Do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own;
And I will put My Spirit within you and cause you to walk in My statutes and to carefully observe My ordinances.
What agreement can exist between the temple of God and idols? For we are the temple of the living God. As God has said: “I will dwell with them and walk among them, and…
And if the Spirit of Him who raised Jesus from the dead is living in you, He who raised Christ Jesus from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through His…
In Him the whole building is fitted together and grows into a holy temple in the Lord.
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1 Peter 1:2according to the foreknowledge of God the Father and sanctified by the Spirit for obedience to Jesus Christ and sprinkling by His blood: Grace and peace be yours in abundance.
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But we should always thank God for you, brothers who are loved by the Lord, because God has chosen you from the beginning to be saved by the sanctification of the Spirit and by…
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Ephesians 2:18For through Him we both have access to the Father by one Spirit.
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For in one Spirit we were all baptized into one body, whether Jews or Greeks, slave or free, and we were all given one Spirit to drink.
In Him and through faith in Him we may enter God’s presence with boldness and confidence.
