2 Corinthians 3:8-9
Context3:8 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
Context3:11 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
Context3:18 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
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.