Bible verse
For if the ministry of condemnation was glorious, how much more glorious is the ministry of righteousness!
2 Corinthians 3:9 · BSB
The verses around it, from 2 Corinthians 3.
5 Not that we are competent in ourselves to claim that anything comes from us, but our competence comes from God.
6 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.
7 Now if the ministry of death, which was engraved in letters on stone, came with such glory that the Israelites could not gaze at the face of Moses because of its fleeting glory,
8 will not the ministry of the Spirit be even more glorious?
9 For if the ministry of condemnation was glorious, how much more glorious is the ministry of righteousness!
10 Indeed, what was once glorious has no glory now in comparison to the glory that surpasses it.
11 For if what was fading away came with glory, how much greater is the glory of that which endures!
12 Therefore, since we have such a hope, we are very bold.
13 We are not like Moses, who would put a veil over his face to keep the Israelites from gazing at the end of what was fading away.
KJV
For if the ministration of condemnation [be] glory, much more doth the ministration of righteousness exceed in glory.
ASV
For if the ministration of condemnation hath glory, much rather doth the ministration of righteousness exceed in glory.
ERV
For if the ministration of condemnation is glory, much rather doth the ministration of righteousness exceed in glory.
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