9For if the ministration of condemnation be glory, much more doth the ministration of righteousness exceed in glory.
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For ye are not come unto the mount that might be touched, and that burned with fire, nor unto blackness, and darkness, and tempest, …
But now the righteousness of God without the law is manifested, being witnessed by the law and the prophets; …
For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.
There is one glory of the sun, and another glory of the moon, and another glory of the stars: for one star differeth from another star in glory.
I bring near my righteousness; it shall not be far off, and my salvation shall not tarry: and I will place salvation in Zion for Israel my glory.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 6-11)Here the apostle makes a comparison between the Old Testament and the New, the law of Moses and the gospel of Jesus Christ, and values himself and his fellow-labourers by this, that they were able ministers of the New Testament , that God had made them so, 2 Cor. 3:6. This he does in answer to the accusations of false teachers, who magnify greatly the law of Moses. I. He distinguishes between the…
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