2 Corinthians 3:9 Parallel Translations

If the ministry that brings punishment has glory, then the ministry that brings God's approval has an overwhelming glory.(GOD'S WORD®)

KJV:

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

ASV:

For if the ministration of condemnation hath glory, much rather doth the ministration of righteousness exceed in glory.

BBE:

For if the operation of the law, producing punishment, had its glory, how much greater will be the operation of the Spirit causing righteousness?

DBY:

For if the ministry of condemnation be glory, much rather the ministry of righteousness abounds in glory.

ERV:

For if the ministration of condemnation is glory, much rather doth the ministration of righteousness exceed in glory.

WEY:

For if the service which pronounces doom had glory, far more glorious still is the service which tells of righteousness.

WBS:

For if the ministration of condemnation was glory, much more doth the ministration of righteousness exceed in glory.

WEB:

For if the service of condemnation has glory, the service of righteousness exceeds much more in glory.

YLT:

for if the ministration of the condemnation is glory, much more doth the ministration of the righteousness abound in glory;

2 Corinthians 3:9 Cross References

XREF:

Deuteronomy 27:26 'Cursed is he who does not confirm the words of this law by doing them.' And all the people shall say, 'Amen.'

Romans 1:17 For in it the righteousness of God is revealed from faith to faith; as it is written, "BUT THE RIGHTEOUS man SHALL LIVE BY FAITH."

Romans 3:21 But now apart from the Law the righteousness of God has been manifested, being witnessed by the Law and the Prophets,

2 Corinthians 3:7 But if the ministry of death, in letters engraved on stones, came with glory, so that the sons of Israel could not look intently at the face of Moses because of the glory of his face, fading as it was,

Hebrews 12:18 For you have not come to a mountain that can be touched and to a blazing fire, and to darkness and gloom and whirlwind, (NASB ©1995)

Commentaries and Concordances

GSB:

3:9 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 condemned, and what is more we are also crowned as righteous.

PNT:

3:9 The ministration of condemnation. The law, including the Decalogue. See 2Co 3:7.
The ministration of righteousness. The gospel. The first condemned; the second justifies men with the righteousness of Christ. With such transcendent blessings, it far exceeds in glory the Old Covenant.

WES:

3:9 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 imputed and imparted righteousness to all believers. But how can the moral law (which alone was engraven on stone) be the ministration of condemnation, if it requires no more than a sincere obedience, such as is proportioned to our infirm state? If this is sufficient to justify us, then the law ceases to be a ministration of condemnation. It becomes (flatly contrary to the apostle's doctrine) the ministration of righteousness.

MHC:

3:1-11 Even the appearance of self-praise and courting human applause, is painful to the humble and spiritual mind. Nothing is more delightful to faithful ministers, or more to their praise, than the success of their ministry, as shown in the spirits and lives of those among whom they labour. The law of Christ was written in their hearts, and the love of Christ shed abroad there. Nor was it written in tables of stone, as the law of God given to Moses, but on the fleshy (not fleshly, as fleshliness denotes sensuality) tables of the heart, Eze 36:26. Their hearts were humbled and softened to receive this impression, by the new-creating power of the Holy Spirit. He ascribes all the glory to God. And remember, as our whole dependence is upon the Lord, so the whole glory belongs to him alone. The letter killeth: the letter of the law is the ministration of death; and if we rest only in the letter of the gospel, we shall not be the better for so doing: but the Holy Spirit gives life spiritual, and life eternal. The Old Testament dispensation was the ministration of death, but the New Testament of life. The law made known sin, and the wrath and curse of God; it showed us a God above us, and a God against us; but the gospel makes known grace, and Emmanuel, God with us. Therein the righteousness of God by faith is revealed; and this shows us that the just shall live by his faith; this makes known the grace and mercy of God through Jesus Christ, for obtaining the forgiveness of sins and eternal life. The gospel so much exceeds the law in glory, that it eclipses the glory of the legal dispensation. But even the New Testament will be a killing letter, if shown as a mere system or form, and without dependence on God the Holy Spirit, to give it a quickening power.

CONC:

Abound Abounds Brings Causing Condemnation Condemns Dispensation Doom Exceed Exceeds Glorious Glory Greater Law Ministration Ministry Operation Producing Pronounces Punishment Rather Righteousness Service Spirit Splendor Tells

Abound Abounds Condemnation Condemns Dispensation Doom Exceed Exceeds Far Glorious Glory Greater Law Ministration Ministry Operation Producing Pronounces Punishment Righteousness Service Spirit Splendor Tells

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