2 Corinthians 3:8 “will not the ministry of the Spirit be even more glorious?”

2 Corinthians 3:8

will not the ministry of the Spirit be even more glorious?

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

How shall not the ministration of the spirit be rather glorious?

World English Bible

won’t service of the Spirit be with much more glory?

American Standard Version

how shall not rather the ministration of the spirit be with glory?

Geneva Bible 1599

Howe shall not the ministration of the Spirite be more glorious?

Darby Translation

how shall not rather the ministry of the Spirit subsist in glory?

Young's Literal Translation

how shall the ministration of the Spirit not be more in glory?

Bible in Basic English

Will not the operation of the Spirit have a much greater glory?

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Cross references

“the ministration”

1 Corinthians 3:16 Ephesians 2:18 Isaiah 59:21 John 1:17 Galatians 3:14 2 Thessalonians 2:13

1 Corinthians 3:16 · BSB

Do you not know that you yourselves are God’s temple, and that God’s Spirit dwells in you?

Ephesians 2:18 · BSB

For through Him we both have access to the Father by one Spirit.

Isaiah 59:21 · BSB

“As for Me, this is My covenant with them,” says the LORD. “My Spirit will not depart from you, and My words that I have put in your mouth will not depart from your mouth or from the mouths of your children and grandchil…

John 1:17 · BSB

For the law was given through Moses; grace and truth came through Jesus Christ.

Galatians 3:14 · BSB

He redeemed us in order that the blessing promised to Abraham would come to the Gentiles in Christ Jesus, so that by faith we might receive the promise of the Spirit.

2 Thessalonians 2:13 · BSB

But we should always thank God for you, brothers who are loved by the Lord, because God chose you from the beginning to be saved by the sanctification of the Spirit and by faith in the truth.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

7Now if the ministry of death, which was engraved in letters on stone, came with such glory that the Israelites could not gaze at the face of Moses because of its fleeting glory,

9For if the ministry of condemnation was glorious, how much more glorious is the ministry of righteousness!

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