Ministers of a New Covenant
Are we beginning to commend ourselves again? Or do we need, like some people, letters of recommendation to you or from you? 2Co 10:122Co 12:112Co 5:12Act 18:271Co 16:31Co 10:331Co 3:101Co 4:15 You yourselves are our letter, inscribed on our hearts, known and read by everyone. 1Co 9:1-21Th 1:8Rom 1:8Php 1:71Co 3:102Co 11:112Co 12:152Co 7:3 It is clear that you are a letter from Christ, the result of our ministry, written not with ink but with the Spirit of the living God, not on tablets of stone but on tablets of human hearts. Ezk 11:19Jer 31:33Heb 8:10Heb 10:16Psa 40:8Exo 31:182Co 6:16Ezk 36:25-27
Such confidence before God is ours through Christ. Php 1:6Eph 3:121Th 1:82Co 2:14Exo 18:19 Not that we are competent in ourselves to claim that anything comes from us, but our competence comes from God. 2Co 12:9Php 4:131Co 15:10Jhn 15:5Php 2:13Jas 1:17Mat 10:19-201Co 3:6 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. Jhn 6:63Rom 7:6Jer 31:31Rom 8:2Heb 8:6-101Co 15:452Co 3:14Heb 12:24
The Glory of the New Covenant
(Exodus 34:10–35)
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, 2Co 3:9-111Co 13:10Exo 31:18Rom 10:42Co 3:32Co 3:6Exo 24:12Deu 10:1-4 will not the ministry of the Spirit be even more glorious? 1Co 3:16Eph 2:181Pe 1:22Th 2:13Gal 3:14Gal 5:22-23Isa 59:21Jhn 1:17 For if the ministry of condemnation was glorious, how much more glorious is the ministry of righteousness! Heb 12:18-21Rom 3:21-222Co 5:211Co 1:301Co 15:412Co 3:10-112Co 3:6-72Pe 1:1 Indeed, what was once glorious has no glory now in comparison to the glory that surpasses it. 2Pe 1:17Hag 2:7-9Act 26:13Hag 2:3Isa 24:23Job 25:5Php 3:7-8Rev 21:23-24 For if what was fading away came with glory, how much greater is the glory of that which endures! Heb 8:13Rom 5:20-21Heb 7:21-252Co 3:6-72Co 4:1Heb 12:25-29
Therefore, since we have such a hope, we are very bold. 2Co 7:4Eph 6:19-20Act 4:13Jhn 16:29Php 1:201Co 14:191Th 2:21Ti 3:13 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. Exo 34:33-35Eph 2:14-152Co 3:7Col 2:17Heb 10:1-9Gal 3:23-24Rom 10:4
But their minds were closed. For to this day the same veil remains at the reading of the old covenant. It has not been lifted, because only in Christ can it be removed. 2Co 4:3-4Act 26:18Rom 11:252Co 4:6Eph 1:17-20Rom 11:7-10Jhn 12:40Ezk 12:2 And even to this day when Moses is read, a veil covers their hearts. Act 13:27-29 But whenever anyone turns to the Lord, the veil is taken away. Exo 34:34Isa 25:7Isa 29:18Jhn 6:45-46Jer 31:34Rom 11:23Rom 11:25-27Lam 3:40
Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom. Rom 8:2Jhn 8:32Gal 5:13Gal 4:6Gal 5:1Isa 61:1-2Jhn 6:632Ti 1:7 And we, who with unveiled faces all reflect the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into His image with intensifying glory, which comes from the Lord, who is the Spirit. 2Co 4:6Eph 4:22-24Rom 12:22Co 4:41Co 13:12Col 3:101Co 15:49Rom 8:29