2 Corinthians 3:9 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ For if the ministration of condemnation be glory, much more doth the ministration of righteousness exceed in glory. ”

2 Corinthians 3:9 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

For if the ministration of condemnation - Of Moses in giving the Law, the effect of which is to produce condemnation. Law condemns the guilty; it does not save them. It denounces punishment; it c...
2 Corinthians 3:9 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

For if the ministration of condemnation [be] glory, much more doth the ministration of (k) righteousness exceed in glory. (k) That is, of Christ. And since he is imputed to us as our own, we are not...
2 Corinthians 3:9 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

This opens the way for a comparison between the ministry under the one covenant and the ministry under the other. The former, even though its issue was historically failure, condemnation, and death,...
2 Corinthians 3:9 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

condemnation. Greek. katakrisis. Only here and 2 Corinthians 7:3 . See App-122. righteousness . Gs. dikaiosune. App-191.
2 Corinthians 3:9 - Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

DISCOURSE: 2009 THE GLORY OF THE GOSPEL ABOVE THAT OF THE LAW 2 Corinthians 3:7-11 . If the ministration of death, written and engraven in stones, was glorious, so that the children of Israel co...
2 Corinthians 3:9 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

For if the ministration of condemnation be glory, much more doth the ministration of righteousness exceed in glory. The ministration of condemnation - The law, which ascertained sin, and condemned...
2 Corinthians 3:9 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Ministration of righteousness— Or, of justification. So the ministry of the gospel is called, because by the gospel a way is provided for the justification of those who have transgressed. But the...
2 Corinthians 3:9 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

For if the ministration of condemnation be glory, much more doth the ministration of righteousness exceed in glory. Ministration of condemnation - the law regarded in the "letter" which "kill...
2 Corinthians 3:9 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

This chapter is closely connected with what goes before, and carries on the vindication of the Apostle's conduct.
2 Corinthians 3:9 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

If the ministration of condemnation be glory... — Many of the better MSS. give the reading, if there be glory to the ministry of condemnation. The latter phrase takes the place here of “the minis...
2 Corinthians 3:9 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Chapter 9 THE TWO COVENANTS. 2 Corinthians 3:4-11 (R.V) THE confidence referred to in the opening of this passage is that which underlies the triumphant Sentences at the end of the second chap...
2 Corinthians 3:9 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

the Veil upon the Heart 2 Corinthians 3:7-18 By a quick turn of thought, Paul passes from the idea of the fleshly tablets of the heart, where God writes His new name, to the Law graven on the a...
2 Corinthians 3:9 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

The apostle declared that the Church is the supreme credential of the power of the ministry. The Corinthian Christians are "known and read of all men." This, however, was not the deepest truth. They...
2 Corinthians 3:9 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

(7) But if the ministration of death, written and engraven in stones, was glorious, so that the children of Israel could not steadfastly behold the face of Moses for the glory of his countenance; whi...
2 Corinthians 3:9 - James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

LAW AND GOSPEL COMPARED ‘But if the ministration of death, written and engraven in stones, was glorious, … much more that which remaineth is glorious.’ 2 Corinthians 3:7-11 In these verses w...
2 Corinthians 3:9 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

For if the ministration of condemnation be glory ,.... So the Jews call the law, for they say, אין כבוד אלא תורה, "there is no glory but the law" f; this is another head of opposition or difference...
2 Corinthians 3:9 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

For if the ministration of condemnation be glory, much more doth the ministration of righteousness exceed in glory. Ver. 9. Exceed in glory ] A throne was set in heaven, Revelation 4:2 ; not i...
2 Corinthians 3:9 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

If , &c. The apostle now proceeds to the second particular; the ministration of condemnation be glorious Attended with such great glory. The law, whether moral or ceremonial, however glorious,...
2 Corinthians 3:9 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Did the Corinthians assume that Paul was merely commending himself or defending himself in penning the last verse of chapter 2? It was not so; but necessity demanded that they should recognize that h...
2 Corinthians 3:9 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Law and Gospel Compared. A. D. 57. 6 Who also hath made us able ministers of the new testame...
2 Corinthians 3:9 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

What the apostle before called the ministration of death, he here calleth the ministration of condemnation; and therin gives us a reason why he called it the ministration of death, because it le...
2 Corinthians 3:9 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

‘For if the ministration of condemnation has glory, much rather does the ministration of righteousness exceed in glory.' He compares the two covenants. The one administered condemnation. It pointed...
2 Corinthians 3:9 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

CRITICAL NOTES N.B. A continuous outpour of argument and appeal, all “alive,” and quivering, thrilling, with quick emotion, from 2 Corinthians 2:17 to 2 Corinthians 6:10 . 2 Corinthians...
2 Corinthians 3:9 - Scofield Reference Notes

righteousness ( See Scofield) - ( Romans 3:21 ).
2 Corinthians 3:9 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

2 Corinthians 3:1 . Do we begin again to commend ourselves? A happy mode of recovery, as though he had slidden unawares into self-applause, when contrasting his ministry with that of false teacher...
2 Corinthians 3:9 - The Biblical Illustrator

But if the ministration of death … was glorious The peculiar glory of the gospel I. That contrasted with the law as “the ministration of condemnation” the gospel is the “ministration of righte...
2 Corinthians 3:9 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION Defence against the charge of self-recommendation, which St. Paul does not need ( 2 Corinthians 3:1-47 ). His sufficiency comes from God ( 2 Corinthians 3:4-47 ), who has made him min...
2 Corinthians 3:9 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The glory of the ministry of righteousness:
2 Corinthians 3:9 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 Corinthians 1:30 ; 1 Corinthians 15:41 ; 2 Corinthians 3:10 ; 2 Corinthians 3:11 ; 2 Corinthians 3:6 ; 2 Corinthians 3:7 ; 2 Corinthians 5:21 ; 2 Peter 1:1 ; Exodus 19:12-19 ; Exodus 20:1...
2 Corinthians 3:9 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

The ministration of condemnation — Such the Mosaic dispensation proved to all the Jews who rejected the gospel whereas through the gospel (hence called the ministration of righteousness) God both i...

2 Corinthians 3:9 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

2 Corinthians 3:9 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

2 Corinthians 3:9 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

2 Corinthians 3:9 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

2 Corinthians 3:9 - Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

2 Corinthians 3:9 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

2 Corinthians 3:9 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

2 Corinthians 3:9 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

2 Corinthians 3:9 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

2 Corinthians 3:9 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

2 Corinthians 3:9 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

2 Corinthians 3:9 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

2 Corinthians 3:9 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

2 Corinthians 3:9 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

2 Corinthians 3:9 - James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

2 Corinthians 3:9 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

2 Corinthians 3:9 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

2 Corinthians 3:9 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

2 Corinthians 3:9 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

2 Corinthians 3:9 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

2 Corinthians 3:9 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

2 Corinthians 3:9 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

2 Corinthians 3:9 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

2 Corinthians 3:9 - Scofield Reference Notes

2 Corinthians 3:9 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

2 Corinthians 3:9 - The Biblical Illustrator

2 Corinthians 3:9 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

2 Corinthians 3:9 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

2 Corinthians 3:9 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

2 Corinthians 3:9 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes