Of His own will He brought us forth by the word of truth. § The letter kills, but the Spirit gives life. Christ also loved the church and gave Himself for her, that He might sanctify and cleanse her with the washing of water by the word, that He might present her to Himself a glorious church, not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing. How can a young man cleanse his way? By taking heed according to Your word … Your word has given me life … Your word I have hidden in my heart, that I might not sin against You … I will not forget Your word … I trust in Your word … The law of Your mouth is better to me than thousands of coins of gold and silver …  I will never forget Your precepts, for by them You have given me life … How sweet are Your words to my taste, sweeter than honey to my mouth! Through Your precepts I get understanding; therefore I hate every false way.

Daily Light on the Daily Path or Daily Light is a Christian daily devotional scripture reading published by Bagster & Sons about 1875. It has been reprinted continually since then. It consists of brief groupings of scripture passages which speak to prominent Biblical themes—two themes (morning and evening) for each day of the year. It appends no commentary, but simply allows scripture to speak for itself.

Evening Daily Light

 The words that I speak to you are spirit, and they are life. 

The letter kills, but the Spirit gives life. (2 Corinthians 3:6)

If you want to know the mind of
the Spirit about anything, you will know it by quickening, by
Life in that direction. If you want to know what the Spirit is
against, you will know it because there is death in that
direction in your spirit, you have no Life, you say, in that
direction. All right, that means you know the Lord, you know the
Spirit, you know what it is to move on the basis of the law of
the Spirit of Life in Christ. The Father governed Him by that
law. He governs us by exactly the same law when we are joined to
the Lord, one spirit. Guidance, direction, is a matter of Life in
the Spirit, Life by the Spirit. The Lord Jesus had His life
ordered, governed, conducted, arranged in every detail by the
quickening Spirit; the Spirit of Life in Christ. 

These Jews came along and said: "Here is the
Scripture, and the Scripture says You ought not to do certain
things, and You are doing them; You are all wrong because the
Scripture says this!" When Christ so acted was He violating the
Scripture? Or was He giving God's meaning to the Scripture? When
God gave that law, did He not have a fuller meaning than what men
see just on the surface? Was there not a spiritual
interpretation? Was it not pointing on to something, which when
it came was to supersede – I do not mean break, but transcend –
simply because higher, fuller, deeper meaning was reached? Christ
is God's Sabbath. It is in Christ that God comes to rest in all
His works; His new creation. But they said, "You must abide by the
letter!" We put it in that way to show the difference between
taking the letter and having the Holy Spirit's illumination of
the letter. Life and the letter are often contrasted in the Word.
The letter killeth, the Spirit maketh alive.

This devotional contains short daily portions from a selection of Mr. Austin-Sparks' messages. In his own words, “Perhaps this is just like a window opened into heaven. If you get the right window you can see quite a lot. You can see great things and you can see far things. But the best that I can hope is that this has just opened a window, and that as you look through it you are seeing one thing - how superior is Jesus Christ to all else, and how superior is the dispensation into which we have come, and how superior are all the resources at our disposal to all that ever was before!” Open Windows messages have been selected and compiled by Austin-Sparks.Net from the works of T. Austin-Sparks. In some cases they appear in abridged form. The introductory verse and its associated Bible version have been selected by the editor and did not always appear within the original message.

Open Windows

The Risen Lord and the Things Which Cannot be Shaken - Chapter 6

 The Living Letters 

It is the Spirit who gives life. § The Spirit also helps in our weaknesses. For we do not know what we should pray for as we ought, but the Spirit Himself makes intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered. Now He who searches the hearts knows what the mind of the Spirit is, because He makes intercession for the saints according to the will of God. § [Pray] always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, being watchful to this end with all perseverance. I will never forget Your precepts, for by them You have given me life. § The words that I speak to you are spirit, and they are life. § The letter kills, but the Spirit gives life. § If you abide in Me, and My words abide in you, you will ask what you desire, and it shall be done for you. § This is the confidence that we have in Him, that if we ask anything according to His will, He hears us. No one can say that Jesus is Lord except by the Holy Spirit.

Morning Daily Light

 Revive us, and we will call upon Your name. 

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 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.

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.

In 1604, King James I of England authorized that a new translation of the Bible into English be started. It was finished in 1611, just 85 years after the first translation of the New Testament into English appeared (Tyndale, 1526). The Authorized Version, or King James Version, quickly became the standard for English-speaking Protestants. Its flowing language and prose rhythm has had a profound influence on the literature of the past 400 years. The King James Version present on the Bible Gateway matches the 1987 printing. The KJV is public domain in the United States.

OT: Masoretic Text, some LXX and Vulgate influence.
NT: Textus Receptus, similar to the Byzantine text-type; some readings derived from the Vulgate.
Apocrypha: Greek Septuagint and Latin Vulgate.

2 Corinthians 3:6 KJV

2 Corinthians 3:6 KJV

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