2 Corinthians 3:17
Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom.
BSB
ASV
Now the Lord is the Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.
KJV
Now the Lord is that Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.
As then young children, so the Jews also, are under a schoolmaster. The Law is our schoolmaster, the schoolmaster brings us to our Master; and our One Master is Christ: Neither be ye called masters, for one is your Master, even, Christ. The schoolmaster is feared, the Master shews the way of salvation. Thus fear brings us to liberty, liberty to faith, faith to love; love obtains adoption, adoption the inheritance.
Now the Lord - Christ is that Spirit of the law whereof I speak, to which the letter was intended to lead. And where the Spirit of the Lord, Christ, is, there is liberty - Not the veil, the emblem of slavery. There is liberty from servile fear, liberty from the guilt and from the power of sin, liberty to behold with open face the glory of the Lord.
Now the Lord is that Spirit - The word “Lord” here evidently refers to the Lord Jesus; see 2Co 3:16. It may be observed in general in regard to this word, that where it occurs in the New Testament unless the connection require us to understand it of God, it refers to the Lord Jesus. It was the common name by which he was known; see Joh 20:13; Joh 21:7, Joh 21:12; Eph 4:1, Eph 4:
Parenthetical: Of Christians in general. He resumes the subject of the ministry, 2Co 4:1. minds--Greek, "mental perceptions"; "understandings." blinded--rather, "hardened." The opposite to "looking steadfastly at the end" of the law (2Co 3:13).
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
The walk8
Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.
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Galatians 5:1It is for freedom that Christ has set us free. Stand firm, then, and do not be encumbered once more by a yoke of slavery.
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Live in freedom, but do not use your freedom as a cover-up for evil; live as servants of God.
Reached by 3 independent paths from here.
For you, brothers, were called to freedom; but do not use your freedom as an opportunity for the flesh. Rather, serve one another in love.
Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.”
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John 8:32Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.”
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For in Christ Jesus the law of the Spirit of life set you free from the law of sin and death.
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
So if the Son sets you free, you will be free indeed.
Sanctify them by the truth; Your word is truth.
Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.
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Romans 8:2For in Christ Jesus the law of the Spirit of life set you free from the law of sin and death.
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For sin shall not be your master, because you are not under law, but under grace.
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
