2 Corinthians 3:8-9 NIV

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - 2 Corinthians 3:6-11

Here the apostle makes a comparison between the Old Testament and the New, the law of Moses and the gospel of Jesus Christ, and values himself and his fellow-labourers by this, that they were able ministers of the New Testament, that God had made them so, 2 Cor. 3:6. This he does in answer to the accusations of false teachers, who magnify greatly the law of Moses. I. He distinguishes between the letter and the spirit even of the New Testament, 2 Cor. 3:6. As able ministers of the New... read more

William Barclay

William Barclay's Daily Study Bible - 2 Corinthians 3:4-11

3:4-11 We can believe this with such confidence because we believe it through Christ and in the sight of God. It is not that in our own resources we are adequate to reckon up the effect of anything that we have done, as it were personally, but our adequacy comes from God, who has made us adequate to be ministers of the new relationship which has come into existence between him and men. This new relationship does not depend on a written document, but on the Spirit. The written document is a... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Corinthians 3:8

How shall not the ministration of the Spirit ,.... By "the ministration of the Spirit", is meant the Gospel; so called not only because it ministers spiritual things, as peace, pardon, righteousness and salvation, spiritual joy and comfort, and even spiritual life; but because it ministers the Spirit of God himself, by whom it is not only dictated, and by him at first confirmed, and who qualities persons for the preaching of it; but by it he conveys himself into the hearts of men, and makes... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Corinthians 3:9

For if the ministration of condemnation be glory ,.... So the Jews call the law, for they say, אין כבוד אלא תורה , "there is no glory but the law" F6 Raya Mehimna in Zohar in Lev. fol. 33. 4. ; this is another head of opposition or difference between the law and the Gospel, from whence the superior glory of the one to the other is argued. The law is "the ministration of condemnation"; as sin is a transgression of the law, it accuses for it, convinces of it, pronounces guilty,... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - 2 Corinthians 3:8

The ministration of the Spirit - The Gospel dispensation, which gives the true spiritual sense of the law. Be rather glorious? - Forasmuch as the thing signified is of infinitely more consequence than that by which it is signified. The Thing bread will preserve a man alive; the Word bread can give life to nothing. read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - 2 Corinthians 3:9

The ministration of condemnation - The law, which ascertained sin, and condemned it to just punishment. The ministration of righteousness - The Gospel, the grand business of which was to proclaim the doctrine δικαιοσυνης , of justification; and to show how God could be just and yet the justifier of him who believeth in Jesus. Exceed in glory - For great, glorious, and awful as the law may be, in its opposition to sin, which is a reproach to man, and a dishonor to God; and in its... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Corinthians 3:1-11

St. Paul's ministry is his sufficient letter of commendation. read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Corinthians 3:1-18

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Corinthians 3:6-11

The old and the new. The warm and affectionate nature of the apostle had embraced the religion of Christ with a fervour, an attached devotion, exceeding even that which he had shown in his earlier days towards the dispensation in which he had been nurtured, Not that he had lost any of the reverence, the affection, he had cherished towards the covenant which God had established with his Hebrew ancestors; but that the new dispensation was so glorious to the view of his soul that it shed its... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Corinthians 3:7-11

Divine revelation more glorious in Christ than in Moses. "But if the ministration," etc. At the outset three facts are noteworthy. 1 . The infinite Father has made a special revelation of himself to his human offspring. 2 . This special revelation of himself has mainly come through two great general sources—Moses and Christ. 3 . The special revelation of himself, as it came through Christ, far transcends in glory the form it assumed as it came through Moses. The essence of the... read more

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - 2 Corinthians 3:6-11

William Barclay's Daily Study Bible - 2 Corinthians 3:4-11

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Corinthians 3:8

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Corinthians 3:9

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - 2 Corinthians 3:8

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - 2 Corinthians 3:9

The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Corinthians 3:1-11

The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Corinthians 3:1-18

The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Corinthians 3:6-11

The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Corinthians 3:7-11

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