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2Cr 3:7 — But if the ministration of death, written [and] engraven in stones, was glorious, so that the children of Israel could not stedfastly behold the face of Moses for the glory of his countenance; which [glory] was to be done away:

Phrase of Scripture		Correlating Passages

the ministration		2Cr 3:6,9; Rom 7:10
written		2Cr 3:3; Exd 24:12; Exd 31:18; Exd 32:15,16,19; Exd 34:1,28; Deu 4:13; Deu 5:22; Deu 9:9-11,15; Deu 10:1-4; Hbr 9:4
was		Deu 4:8; Neh 9:13; Psa 19:7,8; Psa 119:97,127,128,174; Rom 7:12-14,22; Gen 3:21
that		Exd 34:29-35; Luk 9:29-31; Act 6:15
which		2Cr 3:10,11,14; Rom 10:4; 1Cr 13:10

Correlating Passages

the ministration

	2Cr 3:6	Who also hath made us able ministers of the new testament; not of the letter, but of the spirit: for the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life.
	2Cr 3:9	For if the ministration of condemnation [be] glory, much more doth the ministration of righteousness exceed in glory.
	Rom 7:10	And the commandment, which [was ordained] to life, I found [to be] unto death.

written

	2Cr 3:3	[Forasmuch as ye are] manifestly declared to be the epistle of Christ ministered by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; not in tables of stone, but in fleshy tables of the heart.
	Exd 24:12	And the LORD said unto Moses, Come up to me into the mount, and be there: and I will give thee tables of stone, and a law, and commandments which I have written; that thou mayest teach them.
	Exd 31:18	And he gave unto Moses, when he had made an end of communing with him upon mount Sinai, two tables of testimony, tables of stone, written with the finger of God.
	Exd 32:15	And Moses turned, and went down from the mount, and the two tables of the testimony [were] in his hand: the tables [were] written on both their sides; on the one side and on the other [were] they written.
	Exd 32:16	And the tables [were] the work of God, and the writing [was] the writing of God, graven upon the tables.
	Exd 32:19	And it came to pass, as soon as he came nigh unto the camp, that he saw the calf, and the dancing: and Moses' anger waxed hot, and he cast the tables out of his hands, and brake them beneath the mount.
	Exd 34:1	And the LORD said unto Moses, Hew thee two tables of stone like unto the first: and I will write upon [these] tables the words that were in the first tables, which thou brakest.
	Exd 34:28	And he was there with the LORD forty days and forty nights; he did neither eat bread, nor drink water. And he wrote upon the tables the words of the covenant, the ten commandments.
	Deu 4:13	And he declared unto you his covenant, which he commanded you to perform, [even] ten commandments; and he wrote them upon two tables of stone.
	Deu 5:22	These words the LORD spake unto all your assembly in the mount out of the midst of the fire, of the cloud, and of the thick darkness, with a great voice: and he added no more. And he wrote them in two tables of stone, and delivered them unto me.
	Deu 9:9	When I was gone up into the mount to receive the tables of stone, [even] the tables of the covenant which the LORD made with you, then I abode in the mount forty days and forty nights, I neither did eat bread nor drink water:
	Deu 9:10	And the LORD delivered unto me two tables of stone written with the finger of God; and on them [was written] according to all the words, which the LORD spake with you in the mount out of the midst of the fire in the day of the assembly.
	Deu 9:11	And it came to pass at the end of forty days and forty nights, [that] the LORD gave me the two tables of stone, [even] the tables of the covenant.
	Deu 9:15	So I turned and came down from the mount, and the mount burned with fire: and the two tables of the covenant [were] in my two hands.
	Deu 10:1	At that time the LORD said unto me, Hew thee two tables of stone like unto the first, and come up unto me into the mount, and make thee an ark of wood.
	Deu 10:2	And I will write on the tables the words that were in the first tables which thou brakest, and thou shalt put them in the ark.
	Deu 10:3	And I made an ark [of] shittim wood, and hewed two tables of stone like unto the first, and went up into the mount, having the two tables in mine hand.
	Deu 10:4	And he wrote on the tables, according to the first writing, the ten commandments, which the LORD spake unto you in the mount out of the midst of the fire in the day of the assembly: and the LORD gave them unto me.
	Hbr 9:4	Which had the golden censer, and the ark of the covenant overlaid round about with gold, wherein [was] the golden pot that had manna, and Aaron's rod that budded, and the tables of the covenant;

was

	Deu 4:8	And what nation [is there so] great, that hath statutes and judgments [so] righteous as all this law, which I set before you this day?
	Neh 9:13	Thou camest down also upon mount Sinai, and spakest with them from heaven, and gavest them right judgments, and true laws, good statutes and commandments:
	Psa 19:7	The law of the LORD [is] perfect, converting the soul: the testimony of the LORD [is] sure, making wise the simple.
	Psa 19:8	The statutes of the LORD [are] right, rejoicing the heart: the commandment of the LORD [is] pure, enlightening the eyes.
	Psa 119:97	MEM. O how love I thy law! it [is] my meditation all the day.
	Psa 119:127	Therefore I love thy commandments above gold; yea, above fine gold.
	Psa 119:128	Therefore I esteem all [thy] precepts [concerning] all [things to be] right; [and] I hate every false way.
	Psa 119:174	I have longed for thy salvation, O LORD; and thy law [is] my delight.
	Rom 7:12	Wherefore the law [is] holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good.
	Rom 7:13	Was then that which is good made death unto me? God forbid. But sin, that it might appear sin, working death in me by that which is good; that sin by the commandment might become exceeding sinful.
	Rom 7:14	For we know that the law is spiritual: but I am carnal, sold under sin.
	Rom 7:22	For I delight in the law of God after the inward man:
	Gen 3:21	Unto Adam also and to his wife did the LORD God make coats of skins, and clothed them.

that

	Exd 34:29	And it came to pass, when Moses came down from mount Sinai with the two tables of testimony in Moses' hand, when he came down from the mount, that Moses wist not that the skin of his face shone while he talked with him.
	Exd 34:30	And when Aaron and all the children of Israel saw Moses, behold, the skin of his face shone; and they were afraid to come nigh him.
	Exd 34:31	And Moses called unto them; and Aaron and all the rulers of the congregation returned unto him: and Moses talked with them.
	Exd 34:32	And afterward all the children of Israel came nigh: and he gave them in commandment all that the LORD had spoken with him in mount Sinai.
	Exd 34:33	And [till] Moses had done speaking with them, he put a vail on his face.
	Exd 34:34	But when Moses went in before the LORD to speak with him, he took the vail off, until he came out. And he came out, and spake unto the children of Israel [that] which he was commanded.
	Exd 34:35	And the children of Israel saw the face of Moses, that the skin of Moses' face shone: and Moses put the vail upon his face again, until he went in to speak with him.
	Luk 9:29	And as he prayed, the fashion of his countenance was altered, and his raiment [was] white [and] glistering.
	Luk 9:30	And, behold, there talked with him two men, which were Moses and Elias:
	Luk 9:31	Who appeared in glory, and spake of his decease which he should accomplish at Jerusalem.
	Act 6:15	And all that sat in the council, looking stedfastly on him, saw his face as it had been the face of an angel.

which

	2Cr 3:10	For even that which was made glorious had no glory in this respect, by reason of the glory that excelleth.
	2Cr 3:11	For if that which is done away [was] glorious, much more that which remaineth [is] glorious.
	2Cr 3:14	But their minds were blinded: for until this day remaineth the same vail untaken away in the reading of the old testament; which [vail] is done away in Christ.
	Rom 10:4	For Christ [is] the end of the law for righteousness to every one that believeth.
	1Cr 13:10	But when that which is perfect is come, then that which is in part shall be done away.

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