2 Corinthians 3:6 Cross References - Mace

⁶ who also hath enabled me to be a minister of the new covenant, not of the literal sense, but of the spiritual meaning: it is the letter that denounces death, but the spirit gives life.

⁵² they reply'd, yes, Lord. then said he to them, thus every teacher who is instructed in the doctrine of the gospel, is like the master of a family, who taketh out of his treasure things new and old.

²⁸ for this represents my blood, the blood of the new covenant which is shed for mankind for the remission of sins.

²⁴ and he said to them, this represents the effusion of my blood (the sanction of the new covenant) for mankind.

²⁰ and after supper he likewise gave the cup, saying, this cup is the new testament sealed by my blood, which is shed for you.

²¹ for as the father raiseth up the dead, and restores them to life: even so the son gives life to whom he will.

⁶³ it is the action of the mind that vivifies, that of the body profits nothing: the words that I have delivered to you, spiritually understood, give life.

⁵ by whose favour I have received the office of an apostle to bring the Gentiles every where to the obedience of faith preached in his name:

²⁷ and shall not a Gentile, tho' he is not actually circumcised, if he fulfil the law, condemn thee, who, tho' literally circumcised, dost yet transgress the law? ²⁸ for it is not the Jew in outward appearance, neither is it the external mark of circumcision: ²⁹ but it is the Jew, who is so inwardly, and it is the circumcision of the heart, according to the spiritual, not the literal sense, which have the approbation, I do not say of men, but of God.

²⁰ for by the observation of the law no one shall be justified in his sight, since it is the law that takes cognizance of sin.

¹⁵ because the effect of the law is punishment: for if there had been no law, there could have been no transgression.

¹⁷ " I have made thee a father of many nations," then existing in the sight of God, whom he believed, who gives life to the dead, and calls forth things that are not, as if they were:

⁶ but now we are delivered by the death of the law, which held us in bondage: that we might serve according to the living spirit, and not in the dead letter of the law.

⁹ then it was I once liv'd secure; but when the prohibition came, sin exerted it self, and I was in a dying condition: ¹⁰ and the commandment which leads to life was instrumental to my ruin. ¹¹ for sin getting power by the commandment, deceived me, and by it slew me.

² for the christian dispensation of a spiritual life has set me free from the legal state of sin and death.

⁵ who then is Paul, and who is Apollos, but ministers by whom ye have received faith according to the divine gifts imparted to each of them?

¹⁰ according to the free gift of God bestowed upon me, I, as a skilful architect, have laid the foundation, and another builds thereon. but let every man take heed how he builds thereupon.

²⁵ in the same manner he took the cup, after supper, and said, "this cup is the new covenant in my blood: this do ye, as oft as ye drink it, in remembrance of me."

²⁸ which God has placed in the church, first apostles, next prophets, then teachers, after that miracles, then gifts of healings, assistants, governours, interpreters of languages.

⁴⁵ and so it is written, the first man Adam was made an animating soul, the last Adam was made a vivifying spirit.

⁷ now if the law engraven on stone, the letter of whose sanction is death, was delivered with such glory, that the children of Israel could not steadily behold the face of Moses, for the glory of his countenance, tho' it was transient;

⁹ for if the ministration of condemnation was illustrious, the ministration of righteousness will be much more glorious.

¹⁴ besides, their minds were greatly prejudiced: for that very veil would still have obstructed the understanding of the old testament, unless it had been taken away by Christ.

¹⁸ Now this is all owing to God, who hath reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ, and hath made us the ministers of this reconciliation; ¹⁹ for it is God that has reconciled the world to himself, by Jesus Christ, by not imputing their sins to them; and hath committed to us the gospel of reconciliation. ²⁰ we then are ambassadors for Christ, and 'tis God who makes you the offers by us: we pray you in the name of Christ, to make your peace with God.

¹⁰ but they that rest themselves upon the works of the law, are obnoxious to the curse: for it is written, " cursed is every one, who continueth not in all things, which are written in the book of the law, to do them:" ¹¹ but that no man is justified by the law in the sight of God, is evident: for, " the just shall live by faith." ¹² now the law does not justify by FAITH, but says, "he that DOES these things shall live by them."

²¹ Is the law then opposite to the promises? by no means. for if there had been a law given, which could have given life, certainly justification should have been by the law.

¹ When you were in that destructive state of transgression and sin,

⁵ did raise us all, who were in that deadly state of sin, to life by Christ, for by grace ye are saved:

⁷ of this I was made a minister, according to the gracious gift God bestowed on me, by the effectual operation of his influence:

¹¹ It is he then that made some, apostles: some, prophets: some, evangelists: and others, pastors, and teachers: ¹² thus fitly qualifying his servants for their respective offices, in order to build up the body of Christ:

²⁵ of which I have been established a minister, according to the charge which God has given me to preach his gospel faithfully among you. --- ²⁶ that mystery, which has been hid from ages and generations, but is now made manifest to his saints: ²⁷ to whom God does disclose the glorious advantages of this mystery to you Gentiles, to wit, "that by Christ you may have the expectation of glory." ²⁸ he it is that we preach, exhorting, and instructing men in every part of divine knowledge, that they may all be perfectly acquainted with the doctrine of Christ Jesus. ²⁹ this is what I earnestly strive to effect, by virtue of that power, which effectually operates in me.

¹¹ with the salutary doctrine of the gospel of immortality, which the blessed God committed to my trust. ¹² I offer thanks to Jesus Christ our Lord, who qualified me for the ministry he has plac'd me in, for having appointed me to such a trust,

⁶ If you represent these things to the brethren, you will appear to be a true minister of Jesus Christ, brought up in the institutions of faith, and the true doctrine to which you were attach'd.

¹¹ For this I was establish'd the herald, the apostle, and doctor of the Gentiles. this has drawn upon me the evils I suffer.

²² so that Jesus was made guarantee of an alliance so much the more excellent, as it was not without the solemnity of an oath.

⁶ Our high priest then has obtained a priesthood so much the more excellent, as he is the mediator of a better alliance, established upon better promises. ⁷ for if the first alliance had been without defect, there could have been no occasion for the second. ⁸ nor for that reproach, which was made to our fathers, where 'tis said, "behold, the days come, saith the Lord, when I will make a new alliance with the house of Israel, and with the house of Juda: ⁹ not according to the alliance that I made with their fathers, when I took them by the hand, to lead them out of the land of Egypt; for they have not kept my alliance, wherefore I have rejected them, saith the Lord. ¹⁰ but this is the alliance that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord: I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts: I will be their God, and they shall be my people.

¹⁵ and for this cause he is the mediator of the new testament, that, the transgressions that were unexpiated by the first testament, being expiated by his death, they who are called might receive the eternal inheritance, which was promised. ¹⁶ For where a testament is, there the death of the testator is necessarily pre-suppos'd. ¹⁷ because a testament has no effect till after the demise: it not being in force while the testator is alive. ¹⁸ whence even the first testament was not established without the effusion of blood. ¹⁹ for when every precept of the law had been represented by Moses to all the people, he took the blood of calves and of goats, with water, wool of a scarlet dye, and hyssop, and sprinkled both the book of the law and all the people, ²⁰ saying, "this is the blood of the testament which God has made in your behalf."

²⁴ to Jesus the mediator of the new covenant, and to the aspersion of that blood which cries for pardon, and not for vengeance as that of Abel.

²⁰ May the God of peace, who has raised from the dead our Lord Jesus (who by the blood of the eternal covenant is become the grand pastor of

¹⁸ for Jesus Christ himself has already suffer'd for our sins, the innocent for the guilty, to bring us to God: who, tho' he died with respect to his body, was rais'd to life by that spirit,

¹ Concerning the Logos, the author of Life, we declare what was from the beginning, what we have heard, what we have seen with our eyes, what we have consider'd, and what has been the object of our touch.