King James Version (KJV)
2 Corinthians 3:7
“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:”
Verse in context — 2 Corinthians 3
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Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think any thing as of ourselves; but our sufficiency [is] of God;
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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.
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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:
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How shall not the ministration of the spirit be rather glorious?
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For if the ministration of condemnation [be] glory, much more doth the ministration of righteousness exceed in glory.
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