Holy Bible: Easy-to-Read Version
Book of 2 Corinthians
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Study Resource List DSN -> Synopsis on 3:1 GEB -> Study Notes on 3:1 JFB -> Commentary on 3:1 MHC-COM -> Commentary on 3:1 MHC-CON -> Commentary on 3:1 PNT -> Commentary on 3:1 RWP -> Study Notes on 3:1 TSK -> Commentary on 3:1 TSK -> Entry for 3:1 WEN -> Notes on 3:1 NTB -> Letters SBD -> Epicureans, The UTM -> Devotional using 3:1 3:1 - [In Context] Are we starting to boast about ourselves again? Do we need letters of introduction to you or from you, like some other people?
Study Resource List BCC -> Commentary on 3:2 DSN -> Synopsis on 3:2 GEB -> Study Notes on 3:2 JFB -> Commentary on 3:2 MHC-COM -> Commentary on 3:2 MHC-CON -> Commentary on 3:2 PNT -> Commentary on 3:2 RWP -> Study Notes on 3:2 TSK -> Commentary on 3:2 TSK -> Entry for 3:2 WEN -> Notes on 3:2 NTB -> Love; Minister, Christian 3:2 - [In Context] You yourselves are our letter. That letter is written on our hearts. It is known and read by all people.
Study Resource List BCC -> Commentary on 3:3 DSN -> Synopsis on 3:3 GEB -> Study Notes on 3:3 JFB -> Commentary on 3:3 MHC-COM -> Commentary on 3:3 MHC-CON -> Commentary on 3:3 PNT -> Commentary on 3:3 RWP -> Study Notes on 3:3 SRN -> Study Notes on 3:3 TSK -> Commentary on 3:3 TSK -> Entry for 3:3 WEN -> Notes on 3:3 NTB -> Holy Spirit; Ink; Minister, Christian; Regeneration; Table TTT -> Titles and Names of Saints SBD -> Writing PWP -> Devotional using 3:3 3:3 - [In Context] You show that you are a letter from Christ that he sent through us. This letter is not written with ink but with the Spirit F7 of the living God. It is not written on stone tablets. F8 It is written on human hearts.
Study Resource List BCC -> Commentary on 3:4 DSN -> Synopsis on 3:4 GEB -> Study Notes on 3:4 JFB -> Commentary on 3:4 MHC-COM -> Commentary on 3:4 MHC-CON -> Commentary on 3:4 PNT -> Commentary on 3:4 RWP -> Study Notes on 3:4 TSK -> Commentary on 3:4 TSK -> Entry for 3:4 WEN -> Notes on 3:4 NTB -> Depravity Of Man TTT -> Trust PWP -> Devotional using 3:4 3:4 - [In Context] We can say these things, because through Christ we feel sure before God.
Study Resource List BCC -> Commentary on 3:5 DSN -> Synopsis on 3:5 GEB -> Study Notes on 3:5 JFB -> Commentary on 3:5 MHC-COM -> Commentary on 3:5 MHC-CON -> Commentary on 3:5 PNT -> Commentary on 3:5 RWP -> Study Notes on 3:5 TSK -> Commentary on 3:5 TSK -> Entry for 3:5 WEN -> Notes on 3:5 NTB -> Depravity Of Man; Humility TTT -> Ministers EBD -> Humility PWP -> Devotional using 3:5 3:5 - [In Context] I don't mean that we are able to say that we can do anything {good} ourselves. It is God who makes us able to do all that we do.
Study Resource List BCC -> Commentary on 3:6 DSN -> Synopsis on 3:6 GEB -> Study Notes on 3:6 JFB -> Commentary on 3:6 MHC-COM -> Commentary on 3:6 MHC-CON -> Commentary on 3:6 PNT -> Commentary on 3:6 RWP -> Study Notes on 3:6 SRN -> Study Notes on 3:6 TSK -> Commentary on 3:6 TSK -> Entry for 3:6 WEN -> Notes on 3:6 NTB -> Gospel; Holy Spirit; Minister, Christian; Quickening; Word Of God; Zeal, Religious TTT -> Life, Spiritual; Ministers; Scriptures, The; Titles and Names of Ministers EBD -> Letter PWP -> Devotional using 3:6 TV -> Devotional using 3:6 TV -> Devotional using 3:6 TV -> Devotional using 3:6 3:6 - [In Context] God made us able to be servants of a new agreement {from God to his people}. This new agreement is not a written law. It is of the Spirit. F9 The written law brings death, but the Spirit gives life.
Study Resource List BCC -> Commentary on 3:7 DSN -> Synopsis on 3:7 GEB -> Study Notes on 3:7 JFB -> Commentary on 3:7 MHC-COM -> Commentary on 3:7 MHC-CON -> Commentary on 3:7 PNT -> Commentary on 3:7 RWP -> Study Notes on 3:7 TSK -> Commentary on 3:7 TSK -> Entry for 3:7 WEN -> Notes on 3:7 NTB -> Countenance; Gospel; Law; Minister, Christian TTT -> Arts of the; Law of Moses, The EBD -> Glory PWP -> Devotional using 3:7 3:7 - [In Context] The old agreement F10 (the law) that brought death was written with words on stone. F11 It came with {God's} glory. The face of Moses F12 was so bright with glory that the people of Israel (the Jews) could not continue looking at his face. And that glory later disappeared.
Study Resource List BCC -> Commentary on 3:8 DSN -> Synopsis on 3:8 GEB -> Study Notes on 3:8 JFB -> Commentary on 3:8 MHC-COM -> Commentary on 3:8 MHC-CON -> Commentary on 3:8 PNT -> Commentary on 3:8 RWP -> Study Notes on 3:8 TSK -> Commentary on 3:8 TSK -> Entry for 3:8 WEN -> Notes on 3:8 NTB -> Gospel; Holy Spirit; Law; Minister, Christian TTT -> Gospel, The PWP -> Devotional using 3:8 3:8 - [In Context] So surely the new agreement that brings the Spirit F13 has even more glory.
Study Resource List BCC -> Commentary on 3:9 DSN -> Synopsis on 3:9 GEB -> Study Notes on 3:9 JFB -> Commentary on 3:9 MHC-COM -> Commentary on 3:9 MHC-CON -> Commentary on 3:9 PNT -> Commentary on 3:9 RWP -> Study Notes on 3:9 SRN -> Study Notes on 3:9 TSK -> Commentary on 3:9 TSK -> Entry for 3:9 WEN -> Notes on 3:9 NTB -> Glory; Gospel; Law; Minister, Christian TTT -> Condemnation; Glory; Law of Moses, The PWP -> Devotional using 3:9 3:9 - [In Context] This is what I mean: That old agreement judged people guilty of sin, but it had glory. So surely the new agreement that makes people right with God has much greater glory.
Study Resource List BCC -> Commentary on 3:10 DSN -> Synopsis on 3:10 GEB -> Study Notes on 3:10 JFB -> Commentary on 3:10 MHC-COM -> Commentary on 3:10 MHC-CON -> Commentary on 3:10 PNT -> Commentary on 3:10 RWP -> Study Notes on 3:10 TSK -> Commentary on 3:10 TSK -> Entry for 3:10 WEN -> Notes on 3:10 NTB -> Glory; Gospel; Law; Minister, Christian TTT -> Glory PWP -> Devotional using 3:10 3:10 - [In Context] That old agreement had glory. But it really loses its glory when it is compared to the much greater glory {of the new agreement}.
Study Resource List BCC -> Commentary on 3:11 DSN -> Synopsis on 3:11 GEB -> Study Notes on 3:11 JFB -> Commentary on 3:11 MHC-COM -> Commentary on 3:11 MHC-CON -> Commentary on 3:11 PNT -> Commentary on 3:11 RWP -> Study Notes on 3:11 TSK -> Commentary on 3:11 TSK -> Entry for 3:11 WEN -> Notes on 3:11 NTB -> Gospel; Law; Minister, Christian PWP -> Devotional using 3:11 3:11 - [In Context] If the agreement that disappeared came with glory, then the agreement that continues forever has much greater glory.
Study Resource List BCC -> Commentary on 3:12 DSN -> Synopsis on 3:12 GEB -> Study Notes on 3:12 JFB -> Commentary on 3:12 MHC-COM -> Commentary on 3:12 MHC-CON -> Commentary on 3:12 PNT -> Commentary on 3:12 RWP -> Study Notes on 3:12 TSK -> Commentary on 3:12 TSK -> Entry for 3:12 WEN -> Notes on 3:12 NTB -> Hope; Law; Mysteries; Preaching; Zeal, Religious TTT -> Hope; Ministers PWP -> Devotional using 3:12 3:12 - [In Context] We have this hope, so we are very brave.
Study Resource List BCC -> Commentary on 3:13 DSN -> Synopsis on 3:13 GEB -> Study Notes on 3:13 JFB -> Commentary on 3:13 MHC-COM -> Commentary on 3:13 MHC-CON -> Commentary on 3:13 PNT -> Commentary on 3:13 RWP -> Study Notes on 3:13 TSK -> Commentary on 3:13 TSK -> Entry for 3:13 WEN -> Notes on 3:13 NTB -> Countenance; Law; Moses; Mysteries; Preaching; Quotations And Allusions; Veil TTT -> Jews, The; Vail or Veil EBD -> Moses; Veil, vail PWP -> Devotional using 3:13 3:13 - [In Context] We are not like Moses. F14 He put a covering over his face. Moses covered his face so that the people of Israel (the Jews) would not see it. The glory (brightness) was disappearing, and Moses did not want them to see it end.
Study Resource List BCC -> Commentary on 3:14 DSN -> Synopsis on 3:14 GEB -> Study Notes on 3:14 JFB -> Commentary on 3:14 MHC-COM -> Commentary on 3:14 MHC-CON -> Commentary on 3:14 PNT -> Commentary on 3:14 RWP -> Study Notes on 3:14 SRN -> Study Notes on 3:14 TSK -> Commentary on 3:14 TSK -> Entry for 3:14 WEN -> Notes on 3:14 NTB -> Blindness; Law; Mysteries; Veil TTT -> Jews, The; Vail or Veil EBD -> Bible; Moses; Veil, vail PWP -> Devotional using 3:14 3:14 - [In Context] But their minds were closed--they could not understand. Even today that same covering hides the meaning when they (the Jews) read the writings of the old agreement. F15 That covering has not been removed. It is taken away only through Christ.
Study Resource List BCC -> Commentary on 3:15 DSN -> Synopsis on 3:15 GEB -> Study Notes on 3:15 JFB -> Commentary on 3:15 MHC-COM -> Commentary on 3:15 MHC-CON -> Commentary on 3:15 PNT -> Commentary on 3:15 RWP -> Study Notes on 3:15 TSK -> Commentary on 3:15 TSK -> Entry for 3:15 WEN -> Notes on 3:15 NTB -> Blindness; Mysteries; Veil TTT -> Blindness, Spiritual; Jews, The; Vail or Veil EBD -> Moses; Veil, vail PWP -> Devotional using 3:15 3:15 - [In Context] But even today, when these people read the law of Moses, there is a covering over their minds.
Study Resource List BCC -> Commentary on 3:16 DSN -> Synopsis on 3:16 GEB -> Study Notes on 3:16 JFB -> Commentary on 3:16 MHC-COM -> Commentary on 3:16 MHC-CON -> Commentary on 3:16 PNT -> Commentary on 3:16 RWP -> Study Notes on 3:16 TSK -> Commentary on 3:16 TSK -> Entry for 3:16 WEN -> Notes on 3:16 NTB -> Israel, Prophecies Concerning; Mysteries; Veil TTT -> Jews, The; Vail or Veil EBD -> Moses SBD -> Thessalonians, Second Epistle to the PWP -> Devotional using 3:16 3:16 - [In Context] But when a person changes and follows the Lord, that covering is taken away.
Study Resource List BCC -> Commentary on 3:17 DSN -> Synopsis on 3:17 GEB -> Study Notes on 3:17 JFB -> Commentary on 3:17 MHC-COM -> Commentary on 3:17 MHC-CON -> Commentary on 3:17 PNT -> Commentary on 3:17 RWP -> Study Notes on 3:17 TSK -> Commentary on 3:17 TSK -> Entry for 3:17 WEN -> Notes on 3:17 NTB -> Holy Spirit; Mysteries; Trinity TTT -> God; Liberty, Christian EBD -> Moses; Spirit SBD -> Thessalonians, Second Epistle to the PWP -> Devotional using 3:17 3:17 - [In Context] The Lord is the Spirit. And where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom.
Study Resource List BCC -> Commentary on 3:18 DSN -> Synopsis on 3:18 GEB -> Study Notes on 3:18 JFB -> Commentary on 3:18 MHC-COM -> Commentary on 3:18 MHC-CON -> Commentary on 3:18 PNT -> Commentary on 3:18 RWP -> Study Notes on 3:18 SRN -> Study Notes on 3:18 TSK -> Commentary on 3:18 TSK -> Entry for 3:18 WEN -> Notes on 3:18 NTB -> Glory; Gospel; Holy Spirit; Image; Mirror; Mysteries; Regeneration; Symbols And Similitudes TTT -> Example of Christ, The; Excellency and Glory of Christ, The; Glory; New Birth, The EBD -> Moses; Transfiguration, the SBD -> Thessalonians, Second Epistle to the UTM -> Devotional using 3:18 PWP -> Devotional using 3:18 TV -> Devotional using 3:18 TV -> Devotional using 3:18 3:18 - [In Context] And our faces are not covered. We all show the Lord's glory. We are being changed to be like him. This change in us brings more and more glory. This glory comes from the Lord, who is the Spirit.
FOOTNOTES: F7: Spirit, Holy Spirit   Also called the Spirit of God, the Spirit of Christ, and the Comforter. Joined with God and Christ, he does God's work among people in the world. F8: stone tablets, stone   Meaning the law that God gave to Moses, which was written on stone tablets. See Ex. 24:12; 25:16. F9: Spirit, Holy Spirit   Also called the Spirit of God, the Spirit of Christ, and the Comforter. Joined with God and Christ, he does God's work among people in the world. F10: agreement   In verses 7-11 literally, "service" or "ministry." F11: stone tablets, stone   Meaning the law that God gave to Moses, which was written on stone tablets. See Ex. 24:12; 25:16. F12: Moses   One of the most important leaders of the Jewish people during the time of the Old Testament. F13: Spirit, Holy Spirit   Also called the Spirit of God, the Spirit of Christ, and the Comforter. Joined with God and Christ, he does God's work among people in the world. F14: Moses   One of the most important leaders of the Jewish people during the time of the Old Testament. F15: old agreement   The agreement God gave to the Jews in the time of Moses. Here, it is used to mean the law of Moses on which that agreement was based.

Abbreviations Legend: BCC - Burton Coffman; DSN - Darby's Synopsis; GEB - Gill's Exposition; JFB - Jamieson, Fausset, Brown; MHC-COM - Matthew Henry Complete; MHC-CON - Matthew Henry Concise; PNT - People's New Testament; RWP - Robertson's Word Pictures; SRN - Scofield Reference Notes; TSK - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge; WEN - Wesley's Explanatory Notes; NTB - Nave's Topical Bible; TSK - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge; TTT - Torrey's Topical Textbook; EBD - Easton's Bible Dictionary; SBD - Smith's Bible Dictionary; TV - Today's Verse; PWP - Praying With Paul; UTM - My Utmost for His Highest; Copyright Statement - Holy Bible: Easy-to-Read Version © 2001 by World Bible Translation Center, Inc. and used by permission.