2 Corinthians 3:13 Cross References - Goodspeed

¹³ not like Moses, who used to wear a veil over his face, to keep the Israelites from gazing at the fading of the splendor from it.

⁴ For Christ marks the termination of law, so that now anyone who has faith may attain uprightness.

⁷ But if the religion of death, carved in letters of stone, was ushered in with such splendor, so that the Israelites could not look at Moses' face on account of the brightness that was fading from it,

²³ But before this faith came, we were kept shut up under the Law, in order to obtain the faith that was to be revealed. ²⁴ So the Law has been our attendant on our way to Christ, so that we might be made upright through faith.

¹⁴ For he is himself our peace. He has united the two divisions, and broken down the barrier that kept us apart, ¹⁵ and through his human nature put an end to the feud between us, and abolished the Law with its rules and regulations, in order to make peace and create out of the two parties one new man by uniting them with himself,

¹⁷ That was all only the shadow of something that was to follow; the reality is found in Christ.

¹ For while the Law foreshadowed the blessings that were to come, it did not fully express them, and so the priests by offering the same sacrifices endlessly year after year cannot wholly free those who come to worship from their sins. ² Otherwise, would they not have ceased to offer these sacrifices, because those who offered them, having once been purified, would have had no further consciousness of sin? ³ They really only serve to remind the people annually of the sins they have committed, ⁴ for bulls' and goats' blood is powerless to remove sin. ⁵ That is why the Christ, when he was coming into the world, said, "You have not wished sacrifice or offering, but you have provided a body for me. ⁶ You never cared for burnt-offerings and sacrifices for sin! ⁷ So I said, 'See, I have come! as the Book of the Law says of me, O God, to do your will!' " ⁸ At first he says, "You never wished or cared for sacrifices or offerings, or burnt-offerings or sacrifices for sin"—all of which the Law prescribes— ⁹ and then he adds, "See, I have come to do your will!" He is taking away the old to put the new in its place.