1 Lest their false teachers should charge him with vain glory, he shows the faith and graces of the Corinthians to be a sufficient commendation of his ministry.
6 Whereupon entering a comparison between the ministers of the law and of the gospel,
12 he proves that his ministry is so far the more excellent, as the gospel of life and liberty is more glorious than the law of condemnation.

begin. 2:17 5:12 10:8,12 12:11,19 1Co 3:10 4:15 10:33

epistles. Ac 18:27 1Co 16:3

2 Ye are our epistle written in our hearts, known and read of all men:

are. 1Co 3:10 9:1,2

in. 7:3 11:11 12:15 Php 1:7

known. Ro 1:8 1Co 9:2 1Th 1:8

3 Forasmuch as ye are manifestly declared to be the epistle of Christ ministered by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; not in tables of stone, but in fleshy tables of the heart.

the epistle. Ex 31:18 Re 2:1,8,12,18 3:1,7,14,22

ministered. 1Co 8:5-10

the living. 6:16 Jos 3:10 1Sa 17:26 Ps 42:2 84:2 Jer 10:10 Da 6:26 Mt 16:16 1Th 1:9 Heb 9:14

not. Ex 24:12 34:1

but. Ps 40:8 Jer 31:33 Eze 11:19 36:25-27 Heb 8:10 10:16

4 And such trust have we through Christ to God-ward:

such. 2:14 Php 1:6

God-ward. Ex 18:19 1Th 1:8

5 Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think any thing as of ourselves; but our sufficiency is of God;

that. 2:16 4:7 Ex 4:10 Joh 15:5

but. 12:9 Ex 4:11-16 Jer 1:6-10 Mt 10:19,20 Lu 21:15 24:49 1Co 3:6,10 15:10 Php 2:13 4:13 Jas 1:17

6 Who also hath made us able ministers of the new testament; not of the letter, but of the spirit: for the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life.

hath. 5:18-20 Mt 13:52 Ro 1:5 1Co 3:5,10 12:28 Eph 3:7 4:11,12 Col 1:25-29 1Ti 1:11,12 4:6 2Ti 1:11

the new. 14 Jer 31:31 Mt 26:28 Mr 14:24 Lu 22:20 1Co 11:25 Heb 7:22 Heb 8:6-10 9:15-20 12:24 13:20 *marg:

not. Ro 2:27-29 7:6

for. 7,9 De 27:26 Ro 3:20 4:15 7:9-11 Ga 3:10-12,21

but the. Joh 6:63 Ro 8:2 1Jo 1:1

giveth life. or, quickeneth. Joh 5:21 Ro 4:17 1Co 15:45 Eph 2:1,5 1Pe 3:18

7 But if the ministration of death, written and engraven in stones, was glorious, so that the children of Israel could not stedfastly behold the face of Moses for the glory of his countenance; which glory was to be done away:

the ministration. See on ver. 6,9 Ro 7:10

written. 3 Ex 24:12 31:18 32:15,16,19 34:1,28 De 4:13 5:22 9:9-11,15 De 10:1-4 Heb 9:4

was. De 4:8 Ne 9:13 Ps 19:7,8 119:97,127,128,174 Ro 7:12-14,22 Ge 3:21

that. Ex 34:29-35 Lu 9:29-31 Ac 6:15

which. 10,11,14 Ro 10:4 1Co 13:10

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

the ministration. 6,17 11:4 Isa 11:2 44:3 59:21 Joe 2:28,29 Joh 1:17 7:39 Ac 2:17,18 Ac 2:32,33 Ro 8:9-16 1Co 3:16 12:4-11 Ga 3:2-5,14 5:5,22,23 Eph 2:18 2Th 2:13 1Pe 1:2 Jude 1:19,20

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

the ministration of condemnation. See on ver. 6,7 Ex 19:12-19 20:18,19 Ro 1:18 8:3,4 Ga 3:10 Heb 12:18-21

the ministration of righteousness. 5:21 Isa 46:13 Jer 23:6 Ro 1:17 3:21,22 4:11 5:15-21 10:3-10 1Co 1:30 Ga 5:4,5 Php 3:9 2Pe 1:1

exceed. 10,11 1Co 15:41 Heb 3:5,6

10 For even that which was made glorious had no glory in this respect, by reason of the glory that excelleth.

had. Job 25:5 Isa 24:23 Hag 2:3,7-9 Ac 26:13 Php 3:7-8 2Pe 1:17 Re 21:23,24 22:5

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

if. See on ver. 7 Ro 5:20,21 Heb 7:21-25 8:13 12:25-29

much. 6 4:1

12 Seeing then that we have such hope, we use great plainness of speech:

we use. 4:2,3,13 Joh 10:24 16:25,29 1Co 14:19 Col 4:4

plainness. or, boldness. 7:4 10:1 Ac 4:13,29-31 9:27,29 14:3 Eph 6:19,20 Php 1:20 1Th 2:2 1Ti 3:13

13 And not as Moses, which put a vail over his face, that the children of Israel could not stedfastly look to the end of that which is abolished:

which. Ex 34:33-35

could not. 18

to the. Ro 10:4 Ga 3:23,24 Eph 2:14,15 Col 2:17 Heb 10:1-9

14 But their minds were blinded: for until this day remaineth the same vail untaken away in the reading of the old testament; which vail is done away in Christ.

their. 4:3,4 Ps 69:23 Isa 6:10 26:10-12 42:18-20 44:18 56:10 59:10 Jer 5:21 Eze 12:2 Mt 6:23 13:11,13-15 Joh 9:39-41 12:40 Ac 28:26,27 Ro 11:7-10,25

which vail. 4:6 Isa 25:7 Mt 16:17 Lu 18:31-34 24:25-27,44-46 Joh 8:12 Joh 12:46 Ac 16:14 26:18 Eph 1:17-20

15 But even unto this day, when Moses is read, the vail is upon their heart.

the vail. Ac 13:27-29

16 Nevertheless when it shall turn to the Lord, the vail shall be taken away.

when. Ex 34:34 De 4:30 30:10 La 3:40 Ho 3:4,5 Ro 11:25-27

the vail. Isa 25:7 29:18 54:13 Jer 31:34 Joh 6:45,46

17 Now the Lord is that Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.

the Lord. 6 Joh 6:63 1Co 15:45

where. Ps 51:12 Isa 61:1 Ro 8:2,15,16 Ga 4:6 2Ti 1:7

18 But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord.

with. 13

as in. 1Co 13:12 Jas 1:23

the glory. 4:4,6 Joh 1:14 12:41 1Ti 1:11 *Gr:

are. 5:17 Ro 8:29 12:2 13:14 1Co 15:49 Ga 6:15 Eph 4:22-24 Col 3:10 Tit 3:5 2Pe 1:5-9

from. Ro 8:4,7

by the Spirit of the Lord. or, of the Lord the Spirit. 17