NET Bible
"For if there was glory in the ministry that produced condemnation, how much more does the ministry that produces righteousness excel in glory!"
— 2 Corinthians 3:9, NET Bible
“For if the ministration of condemnation be glory, much more doth the ministration of righteousness exceed in glory.”
“For if the ministration of condemnation hath glory, much rather doth the ministration of righteousness exceed in glory. ”
“For if the service of condemnation has glory, the service of righteousness exceeds much more in glory.”
“For if the ministration of condemnation be glory, much more the ministration of justice aboundeth in glory.”
“For if the operation of the law, producing punishment, had its glory, how much greater will be the operation of the Spirit causing righteousness?”
“For if the ministration of condemnation be glory, much more doth the ministration of righteousness exceed in glory.”
who made us adequate to be servants of a new covenant not based on the letter but on the Spirit, for the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.
The Greater Glory of the Spirit’s Ministry But if the ministry that produced death– carved in letters on stone tablets– came with glory, so that the Israelites could not keep their eyes fixed on the face of Moses because of the glory of his face(a glory which was made ineffective),
how much more glorious will the ministry of the Spirit be?
For if there was glory in the ministry that produced condemnation, how much more does the ministry that produces righteousness excel in glory!
For indeed, what had been glorious now has no glory because of the tremendously greater glory of what replaced it.
For if what was made ineffective came with glory, how much more has what remains come in glory!
Therefore, since we have such a hope, we behave with great boldness,