2 Corinthians 3:7
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7 Now if the ministry of death, chiseled in letters on stone tablets,[a] came in glory so that the people of Israel could not gaze at Moses’s face because of the glory of his face, a glory now set aside,(A)
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- 3.7 Gk on stones
2 Corinthians 3:9-11
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9 For if there was glory in the ministry of condemnation,[a] much more does the ministry of justification abound in glory!(A) 10 Indeed, what once had glory has in this respect lost its glory because of the greater glory, 11 for if what was set aside came through glory, much more has the permanent come in glory!
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- 3.9 Other ancient authorities read If the ministry of condemnation constituted glory
Romans 10:4
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4 For Christ is the culmination of the law so that there may be righteousness for everyone who believes.(A)
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1 Corinthians 13:10
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10 but when the complete comes, the partial will come to an end.
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2 Corinthians 3:6
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6 who has made us qualified to be ministers of a new covenant, not of letter but of spirit, for the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.(A)
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2 Corinthians 3:3
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3 and you show that you are a letter of Christ, prepared by us, written not with ink but with the Spirit of the living God, not on tablets of stone but on tablets that are human hearts.[a](A)
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- 3.3 Gk hearts of flesh
Exodus 31:18
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The Two Tablets of the Covenant
18 When God[a] finished speaking with Moses on Mount Sinai, he gave him the two tablets of the covenant, tablets of stone, written with the finger of God.(A)
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- 31.18 Heb he
Exodus 24:12
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12 The Lord said to Moses, “Come up to me on the mountain and wait there; I will give you the tablets of stone, with the law and the commandment, which I have written for their instruction.”
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2 Corinthians 3:13-14
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13 not like Moses, who put a veil over his face to keep the people of Israel from gazing at the end of the glory that[a] was being set aside.(A) 14 But their minds were hardened. Indeed, to this very day, when they hear the reading of the old covenant, the same veil is still there; it is not unveiled since in Christ it is set aside.(B)
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- 3.13 Gk of what
Romans 7:10
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10 and I died, and the very commandment that promised life proved to be death to me.(A)
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Romans 4:15
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15 For the law brings wrath, but where there is no law, neither is there transgression.(A)
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Acts 6:15
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15 And all who sat in the council looked intently at him, and they saw that his face was like the face of an angel.
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Luke 9:29-31
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29 And while he was praying, the appearance of his face changed, and his clothes became as bright as a flash of lightning. 30 Suddenly they saw two men, Moses and Elijah, talking to him. 31 They appeared in glory and were speaking about his exodus, which he was about to fulfill in Jerusalem.(A)
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Psalm 119:174
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174 I long for your salvation, O Lord,
and your law is my delight.
Psalm 119:97
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97 Oh, how I love your law!
It is my meditation all day long.(A)
Deuteronomy 10:1-4
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The Second Pair of Tablets
10 “At that time the Lord said to me, ‘Carve out two tablets of stone like the former ones, and come up to me on the mountain, and make an ark of wood.(A) 2 I will write on the tablets the words that were on the former tablets, which you smashed, and you shall put them in the ark.’(B) 3 So I made an ark of acacia wood, cut two tablets of stone like the former ones, and went up the mountain with the two tablets in my hand.(C) 4 Then he wrote on the tablets the same words as before, the ten commandments[a] that the Lord had spoken to you on the mountain out of the fire on the day of the assembly, and the Lord gave them to me.(D)
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- 10.4 Heb the ten words
Deuteronomy 9:15
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15 “So I turned and went down from the mountain, while the mountain was ablaze; the two tablets of the covenant were in my two hands.(A)
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Romans 7:22
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22 For I delight in the law of God in my inmost self,(A)
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Romans 7:12-14
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12 So the law is holy, and the commandment is holy and just and good.(A)
13 Did what is good, then, bring death to me? By no means! It was sin that was working death in me through what is good, in order that it might be shown to be sin, so that through the commandment sin might become sinful beyond measure.
The Inner Conflict
14 For we know that the law is spiritual, but I am of the flesh, sold into slavery under sin.[a]
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- 7.14 Gk sold under sin
Deuteronomy 9:9-11
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9 When I went up the mountain to receive the stone tablets, the tablets of the covenant that the Lord made with you, I remained on the mountain forty days and forty nights; I neither ate bread nor drank water.(A) 10 And the Lord gave me the two stone tablets written with the finger of God; on them were all the words that the Lord had spoken to you at the mountain out of the fire on the day of the assembly.(B) 11 At the end of forty days and forty nights the Lord gave me the two stone tablets, the tablets of the covenant.
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Deuteronomy 4:13
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13 He declared to you his covenant, which he charged you to observe, that is, the ten commandments,[a] and he wrote them on two stone tablets.(A)
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- 4.13 Heb the ten words
Exodus 34:28-35
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28 He was there with the Lord forty days and forty nights; he neither ate bread nor drank water. And he wrote on the tablets the words of the covenant, the ten commandments.[a](A)
The Shining Face of Moses
29 Moses came down from Mount Sinai. As he came down from the mountain with the two tablets of the covenant in his hand, Moses did not know that the skin of his face shone because he had been talking with God.(B) 30 When Aaron and all the Israelites saw Moses, the skin of his face was shining, and they were afraid to come near him. 31 But Moses called to them, and Aaron and all the leaders of the congregation returned to him, and Moses spoke with them. 32 Afterward all the Israelites came near, and he gave them in commandment all that the Lord had spoken with him on Mount Sinai.(C) 33 When Moses had finished speaking with them, he put a veil on his face,(D) 34 but whenever Moses went in before the Lord to speak with him, he would take the veil off until he came out, and when he came out and told the Israelites what he had been commanded,(E) 35 the Israelites would see the face of Moses, that the skin of his face was shining, and Moses would put the veil on his face again until he went in to speak with him.
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- 34.28 Heb the ten words
Exodus 34:1
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Moses Makes New Tablets
34 The Lord said to Moses, “Cut two tablets of stone like the former ones, and I will write on the tablets the words that were on the former tablets, which you broke.(A)
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Exodus 32:19
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19 As soon as he came near the camp and saw the calf and the dancing, Moses’s anger burned hot, and he threw the tablets from his hands and broke them at the foot of the mountain.(A)
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Exodus 32:15-16
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15 Then Moses turned and went down from the mountain, carrying the two tablets of the covenant in his hands, tablets that were written on both sides, written on the front and on the back.(A) 16 The tablets were the work of God, and the writing was the writing of God, engraved upon the tablets.(B)
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