righteousness
( See Scofield) - (Romans 3:21).
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...
For if the ministration of condemnation [be] glory, much more doth the ministration of (k) righteousness exceed in glory. (k) That is, of Christ. An...
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 w...
condemnation. Greek. katakrisis. Only here and 2 Corinthians 7:3 . See App-122. righteousness . Gs. dikaiosune. App-191.
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 stone...
For if the ministration of condemnation be glory, much more doth the ministration of righteousness exceed in glory. The ministration of condemnatio...
Ministration of righteousness— Or, of justification. So the ministry of the gospel is called, because by the gospel a way is provided for the jus...
For if the ministration of condemnation be glory, much more doth the ministration of righteousness exceed in glory. Ministration of condemnat...
This chapter is closely connected with what goes before, and carries on the vindication of the Apostle's conduct.
Paraphrase. 'Now if the system which could only declare the sentence of death upon sin was glorious (and glorious it was, for at its giving the ver...
Ministration of righteousness ] better, 'of acquittal,' in contrast to 'of condemnation.' The gospel message is one of pardon and reconciliation.
If the ministration of condemnation be glory... — Many of the better MSS. give the reading, if there be glory to the ministry of condemnation. Th...
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...
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 G...
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...
(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 f...
LAW AND GOSPEL COMPARED ‘But if the ministration of death, written and engraven in stones, was glorious, … much more that which remaineth is glori...
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;...
For if the ministration of condemnation be glory, much more doth the ministration of righteousness exceed in glory. Ver. 9. Exceed in glory ] A...
If , &c. The apostle now proceeds to the second particular; the ministration of condemnation be glorious Attended with such great glory. The l...
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 ne...
Law and Gospel Compared. A. D. 57. 6 Who a...
What the apostle before called the ministration of death, he here calleth the ministration of condemnation; and therin gives us a reason why he...
‘For if the ministration of condemnation has glory, much rather does the ministration of righteousness exceed in glory.' He compares the two covenan...
CRITICAL NOTES N.B. A continuous outpour of argument and appeal, all “alive,” and quivering, thrilling, with quick emotion, from 2 Corinthian...
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 c...
But if the ministration of death … was glorious The peculiar glory of the gospel I. That contrasted with the law as “the ministration of conde...
For if the ministration of condemnation be glory. Condemnation and righteousness here replace death and life, because it is through condemnatio...
EXPOSITION Defence against the charge of self-recommendation, which St. Paul does not need ( 2 Corinthians 3:1-47 ). His sufficiency comes from...
The glory of the ministry of righteousness:
For if the ministration of condemnation be glory, much more doth the ministration of righteousness exceed in glory.
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 5:2...
The ministration of condemnation — Such the Mosaic dispensation proved to all the Jews who rejected the gospel whereas through the gospel (hence ca...
9 For if the ministration of condemnation be glory, much more doth the ministration of righteousness exceed in glory.