2 Corinthians 3:6

¶ 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.

Who {G3739} also {G2532} hath made {G2427} us {G2248} able {G2427} ministers {G1249} of the new {G2537} testament {G1242}; not {G3756} of the letter {G1121}, but {G235} of the spirit {G4151}: for {G1063} the letter {G1121} killeth {G615}, but {G1161} the spirit {G4151} giveth life {G2227}.

He has even made us competent to be workers serving a New Covenant, the essence of which is not a written text but the Spirit. For the written text brings death, but the Spirit gives life.

And He has qualified us as ministers of a new covenant, not of the letter but of the Spirit; for the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.

who also made us sufficient as ministers of a new covenant; not of the letter, but of the spirit: for the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life.

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Cross-References

  • John 6:63 (32 votes)

    It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, [they] are spirit, and [they] are life.

  • Romans 7:6 (28 votes)

    But now we are delivered from the law, that being dead wherein we were held; that we should serve in newness of spirit, and not [in] the oldness of the letter.

  • Jeremiah 31:31 (25 votes)

    Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah:

  • Romans 8:2 (23 votes)

    For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death.

  • Hebrews 8:6 (17 votes)

    ¶ But now hath he obtained a more excellent ministry, by how much also he is the mediator of a better covenant, which was established upon better promises.

  • Hebrews 8:10 (17 votes)

    For this [is] the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord; I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts: and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people:

  • Hebrews 12:24 (13 votes)

    And to Jesus the mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling, that speaketh better things than [that of] Abel.