2 Corinthians 3:11

That which remaineth — That dispensation which remains to the end of the world; that spirit and life which remain for ever.

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Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

For if that which is done away ... - The splendor that attended the giving of the Law; the bright shining of the face of Moses; and the ritual in...
Arno Geneva Study Bible

For if that which is (l) done away [was] glorious, much more that which remaineth [is] glorious. (l) The Law, indeed, and the ten commandments thems...
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 w...
Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

glorious . through (Greek. dia. App-104. 2 Corinthians 3:1 ) glory. remaineth . Greek. meno. See p. 1511. glorious . in (Greek. en) glory...
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 stone...
Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

For if that which is done away was glorious, much more that which remaineth is glorious. For if that which is done away, etc. - Here is another s...
Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

If that which is done away— St. Paul here mentions another pre-eminence and superiority of glory in the gospel over the law; namely, that the law w...
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

For if that which is done away was glorious, much more that which remaineth is glorious. Was glorious - literally, 'was with glory;' or 'mark...
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.
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

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...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

That which is done away, etc.] another aspect of the truth stated in 2 Corinthians 3:10 .
Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

For if that which is done away... — The Greek participle is in the present tense, “being done away,” or “failing,” expressing the same thought as t...
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...
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 G...
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...
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 f...
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 glori...
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

For if that which is done away ,.... Here another difference is pointed out, which subsists between the law and the Gospel, and proves that the one...
John Trapp Complete Commentary

For if that which is done away was glorious, much more that which remaineth is glorious. Ver. 11. Much more that, &c. ] As the sun outshi...
Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Even that which was made glorious The law, especially at its first dispensation; had no glory in this respect , &c. That is, none in compariso...
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 ne...
Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Law and Gospel Compared. A. D. 57. 6 Who a...
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

The apostle, by another argument, proveth the ministration of the gospel to be much more glorious than the ministration of the law, because it is mor...
Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

‘For truly 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 pass...
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 Corinthian...
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 c...
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 conde...
The Biblical Illustrator

For if the ministration of condemnation be glory. Condemnation and righteousness here replace death and life, because it is through condemnatio...
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...
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The glory of the ministry of righteousness:
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

For if that which is done away was glorious, much more that which remaineth is glorious. The contrast of v. 6 is here carried out in detail, proba...
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

2 Corinthians 3:6 ; 2 Corinthians 3:7 ; 2 Corinthians 4:1 ; Hebrews 12:25-29 ; Hebrews 7:21-25 ; Hebrews 8:13 ; Romans 5:20 ; Romans 5:21

¹¹ For if that which is done away was glorious, much more that which remaineth is glorious.

Related Commentaries of 2 Corinthians 3:11

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Arno Geneva Study Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

John Trapp Complete Commentary

Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The Biblical Illustrator

The Biblical Illustrator

The Complete Pulpit Commentary

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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