2 Corinthians 3:8-9

3:8 how much more glorious will the ministry of the Spirit be? ¹  3:9 For if there was glory in the ministry that produced condemnation, ²  how much more does the ministry that produces righteousness ³  excel ⁴  in glory!

2 Corinthians 3:11

3:11 For if what was made ineffective ⁵  came with ⁶  glory, how much more has what remains ⁷  come in glory!

2 Corinthians 3:18

3:18 And we all, with unveiled faces reflecting the glory of the Lord, ⁸  are being transformed into the same image from one degree of glory to another, ⁹  which is from ¹⁰  the Lord, who is the Spirit. ¹¹ 

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¹ tn Grk “how will not rather the ministry of the Spirit be with glory?”

² tn Grk “the ministry of condemnation”; translated as an objective genitive, “the ministry that produced condemnation.”

³ tn Grk “the ministry of righteousness”; translated as an objective genitive, “the ministry that produces righteousness.”

⁴ tn Traditionally, “abound.”

⁵ tn Or “what was fading away.” See note on “which was made ineffective” in v. 7.

⁶ tn Or “through” (διά, dia).

⁷ tn Or “what is permanent.”

⁸ tn Or “we all with unveiled faces beholding the glory of the Lord as in a mirror.”

⁹ tn Grk “from glory to glory.”

¹⁰ tn Grk “just as from.”

¹¹ tn Grk “from the Lord, the Spirit”; the genitive πνεύματος (pneumato") has been translated as a genitive of apposition.