2 Corinthians 3:13 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹³And not as Moses, which put a vail over his face, that the children of Israel could not stedfastly look to the end of that which is abolished:

2 Corinthians 3:13 —

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Cross-References

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Exodus 34:33-35
And till Moses had done speaking with them, he put a vail on his face. …
Ephesians 2:14-15
For he is our peace, who hath made both one, and hath broken down the middle wall of partition between us; …
2 Corinthians 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:
Hebrews 10:1-9
For the law having a shadow of good things to come, and not the very image of the things, can never with those sacrifices which they offered year by year continually make the comers thereunto perfect. …
Colossians 2:17
Which are a shadow of things to come; but the body is of Christ.

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 12-18)

In these verses the apostle draws two inferences from what he had said about the Old and New Testament:— I. Concerning the duty of the ministers of the gospel to use great plainness or clearness of speech. They ought not, like Moses, to put a veil upon their faces, or obscure and darken those things which they should make plain. The gospel is a more clear dispensation than the law; the things of G…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 13)

13. We use no disguise, “as Moses put a veil over his face, that the children of Israel might not look steadfastly upon the end of that which was to be done away” [Ellicott and others]. The view of Ex 34:30-35, according to the Septuagint is adopted by Paul, that Moses in going in to speak to God removed the veil till he came out and had spoken to the people; and then when he had done speaking, he…