2Cor 3:6 Cross References

2 Corinthians 3:6

6: He is the one who has enabled us to represent his new covenant. This is a covenant, not of written laws, but of the Spirit. The old way ends in death; in the new way, the Holy Spirit gives life.

John 6:63

  1. It is the Spirit who gives eternal life. Human effort accomplishes nothing. And the very words I have spoken to you are spirit and life.

Jeremiah 31:31

  1. "The day will come," says the LORD, "when I will make a new covenant with the people of Israel and Judah.

Romans 7:6

  1. But now we have been released from the law, for we died with Christ, and we are no longer captive to its power. Now we can really serve God, not in the old way by obeying the letter of the law, but in the new way, by the Spirit.

Hebrews 8:6

  1. But our High Priest has been given a ministry that is far superior to the ministry of those who serve under the old laws, for he is the one who guarantees for us a better covenant with God, based on better promises.
  2. If the first covenant had been faultless, there would have been no need for a second covenant to replace it.
  3. But God himself found fault with the old one when he said: "The day will come, says the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the people of Israel and Judah.
  4. This covenant will not be like the one I made with their ancestors when I took them by the hand and led them out of the land of Egypt. They did not remain faithful to my covenant, so I turned my back on them, says the Lord.
  5. But this is the new covenant I will make with the people of Israel on that day, says the Lord: I will put my laws in their minds so they will understand them, and I will write them on their hearts so they will obey them. I will be their God, and they will be my people.

Romans 8:2

  1. For the power of the life-giving Spirit has freed you through Christ Jesus from the power of sin that leads to death.

2 Corinthians 3:14

  1. But the people's minds were hardened, and even to this day whenever the old covenant is being read, a veil covers their minds so they cannot understand the truth. And this veil can be removed only by believing in Christ.

Hebrews 12:24

  1. You have come to Jesus, the one who mediates the new covenant between God and people, and to the sprinkled blood, which graciously forgives instead of crying out for vengeance as the blood of Abel did.

Hebrews 7:22

  1. Because of God's oath, it is Jesus who guarantees the effectiveness of this better covenant.

1 Corinthians 15:45

  1. The Scriptures tell us, "The first man, Adam, became a living person." But the last Adam--that is, Christ--is a life-giving Spirit.

1 Corinthians 11:25

  1. In the same way, he took the cup of wine after supper, saying, "This cup is the new covenant between God and you, sealed by the shedding of my blood. Do this in remembrance of me as often as you drink it."

Romans 3:20

  1. For no one can ever be made right in God's sight by doing what his law commands. For the more we know God's law, the clearer it becomes that we aren't obeying it.

Hebrews 13:20

  1. And now, may the God of peace, who brought again from the dead our Lord Jesus, equip you with all you need for doing his will. May he produce in you, through the power of Jesus Christ, all that is pleasing to him. Jesus is the great Shepherd of the sheep by an everlasting covenant, signed with his blood. To him be glory forever and ever. Amen.

Luke 22:20

  1. After supper he took another cup of wine and said, "This wine is the token of God's new covenant to save you--an agreement sealed with the blood I will pour out for you.

1 Peter 3:18

  1. Christ also suffered when he died for our sins once for all time. He never sinned, but he died for sinners that he might bring us safely home to God. He suffered physical death, but he was raised to life in the Spirit.

Matthew 13:52

  1. Then he added, "Every teacher of religious law who has become a disciple in the Kingdom of Heaven is like a person who brings out of the storehouse the new teachings as well as the old."

2 Corinthians 5:18

  1. All this newness of life is from God, who brought us back to himself through what Christ did. And God has given us the task of reconciling people to him.
  2. For God was in Christ, reconciling the world to himself, no longer counting people's sins against them. This is the wonderful message he has given us to tell others.
  3. We are Christ's ambassadors, and God is using us to speak to you. We urge you, as though Christ himself were here pleading with you, "Be reconciled to God!"

Galatians 3:10

  1. But those who depend on the law to make them right with God are under his curse, for the Scriptures say, "Cursed is everyone who does not observe and obey all these commands that are written in God's Book of the Law."
  2. Consequently, it is clear that no one can ever be right with God by trying to keep the law. For the Scriptures say, "It is through faith that a righteous person has life."
  3. How different from this way of faith is the way of law, which says, "If you wish to find life by obeying the law, you must obey all of its commands."

Romans 2:27

  1. In fact, uncircumcised Gentiles who keep God's law will be much better off than you Jews who are circumcised and know so much about God's law but don't obey it.
  2. For you are not a true Jew just because you were born of Jewish parents or because you have gone through the Jewish ceremony of circumcision.
  3. No, a true Jew is one whose heart is right with God. And true circumcision is not a cutting of the body but a change of heart produced by God's Spirit. Whoever has that kind of change seeks praise from God, not from people.

1 Corinthians 12:28

  1. Here is a list of some of the members that God has placed in the body of Christ: first are apostles, second are prophets, third are teachers, then those who do miracles, those who have the gift of healing, those who can help others, those who can get others to work together, those who speak in unknown languages.

Romans 4:15

  1. But the law brings punishment on those who try to obey it. (The only way to avoid breaking the law is to have no law to break!)

2 Corinthians 3:7

  1. That old system of law etched in stone led to death, yet it began with such glory that the people of Israel could not bear to look at Moses' face. For his face shone with the glory of God, even though the brightness was already fading away.

Matthew 26:28

  1. for this is my blood, which seals the covenant between God and his people. It is poured out to forgive the sins of many.

Ephesians 3:7

  1. By God's special favor and mighty power, I have been given the wonderful privilege of serving him by spreading this Good News.

1 Corinthians 3:10

  1. Because of God's special favor to me, I have laid the foundation like an expert builder. Now others are building on it. But whoever is building on this foundation must be very careful.

1 Timothy 1:11

  1. that comes from the glorious Good News entrusted to me by our blessed God.
  2. How thankful I am to Christ Jesus our Lord for considering me trustworthy and appointing me to serve him,

John 5:21

  1. He will even raise from the dead anyone he wants to, just as the Father does.

Ephesians 4:11

  1. He is the one who gave these gifts to the church: the apostles, the prophets, the evangelists, and the pastors and teachers.
  2. Their responsibility is to equip God's people to do his work and build up the church, the body of Christ,

1 Corinthians 3:5

  1. Who is Apollos, and who is Paul, that we should be the cause of such quarrels? Why, we're only servants. Through us God caused you to believe. Each of us did the work the Lord gave us.

Mark 14:24

  1. And he said to them, "This is my blood, poured out for many, sealing the covenant between God and his people.

Romans 7:9

  1. I felt fine when I did not understand what the law demanded. But when I learned the truth, I realized I had broken the law and was a sinner, doomed to die.
  2. So the good law, which was supposed to show me the way of life, instead gave me the death penalty.
  3. Sin took advantage of the law and fooled me; it took the good law and used it to make me guilty of death.

Colossians 1:25

  1. God has given me the responsibility of serving his church by proclaiming his message in all its fullness to you Gentiles.
  2. This message was kept secret for centuries and generations past, but now it has been revealed to his own holy people.
  3. For it has pleased God to tell his people that the riches and glory of Christ are for you Gentiles, too. For this is the secret: Christ lives in you, and this is your assurance that you will share in his glory.
  4. So everywhere we go, we tell everyone about Christ. We warn them and teach them with all the wisdom God has given us, for we want to present them to God, perfect in their relationship to Christ.
  5. I work very hard at this, as I depend on Christ's mighty power that works within me.

1 Timothy 4:6

  1. If you explain this to the brothers and sisters, you will be doing your duty as a worthy servant of Christ Jesus, one who is fed by the message of faith and the true teaching you have followed.

Deuteronomy 27:26

  1. `Cursed is anyone who does not affirm the terms of this law by obeying them.' And all the people will reply, `Amen.'

Hebrews 9:15

  1. That is why he is the one who mediates the new covenant between God and people, so that all who are invited can receive the eternal inheritance God has promised them. For Christ died to set them free from the penalty of the sins they had committed under that first covenant.
  2. Now when someone dies and leaves a will, no one gets anything until it is proved that the person who wrote the will is dead.
  3. The will goes into effect only after the death of the person who wrote it. While the person is still alive, no one can use the will to get any of the things promised to them.
  4. That is why blood was required under the first covenant as a proof of death.
  5. For after Moses had given the people all of God's laws, he took the blood of calves and goats, along with water, and sprinkled both the book of God's laws and all the people, using branches of hyssop bushes and scarlet wool.

Romans 1:5

  1. Through Christ, God has given us the privilege and authority to tell Gentiles everywhere what God has done for them, so that they will believe and obey him, bringing glory to his name.

Romans 4:17

  1. That is what the Scriptures mean when God told him, "I have made you the father of many nations." This happened because Abraham believed in the God who brings the dead back to life and who brings into existence what didn't exist before.

1 John 1:1

  1. The one who existed from the beginning is the one we have heard and seen. We saw him with our own eyes and touched him with our own hands. He is Jesus Christ, the Word of life.

2 Timothy 1:11

  1. And God chose me to be a preacher, an apostle, and a teacher of this Good News.

Ephesians 2:1

  1. Once you were dead, doomed forever because of your many sins.

Galatians 3:21

  1. Well then, is there a conflict between God's law and God's promises? Absolutely not! If the law could have given us new life, we could have been made right with God by obeying it.

Ephesians 2:5

  1. that even while we were dead because of our sins, he gave us life when he raised Christ from the dead. (It is only by God's special favor that you have been saved!)

2 Corinthians 3:9

  1. If the old covenant, which brings condemnation, was glorious, how much more glorious is the new covenant, which makes us right with God!
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