2 Corinthians 3:9
For if the ministration of condemnation be glory, much more doth the ministration of righteousness exceed in glory.
KJV
εἰ γὰρ τῇ διακονίᾳ τῆς κατακρίσεως δόξα, πολλῷ μᾶλλον περισσεύει ἡ διακονία τῆς δικαιοσύνης δόξῃ.
Greek NT
Nam si ministratio damnationis gloria est : multo magis abundat ministerium justitiæ in gloria.
Vulgate
For if the ministration of condemnation hath glory, much rather doth the ministration of righteousness exceed in glory.
ASV
For if the ministration of condemnation be glory, much more the ministration of justice aboundeth in glory.
Douay-Rheims
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In the original Greek
10 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.
Textual variants
2 variant units attested by manuscript witnesses and modern critical editions.
- τῇ διακονίᾳ — SBLGNT
- τῇ διακονίᾳ — Tregelles, Reader's GNT (NA27)
- ἡ διακονία — Westcott-Hort, Robinson-Pierpont
- δικαιοσύνης — SBLGNT
- δικαιοσύνης — Westcott-Hort, Tregelles, Reader's GNT (NA27)
- + ἐν — Robinson-Pierpont
Historic Christian voices
3 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
Cross-references
- 2Cor 3:6 — Who also hath made us able ministers of the new testament; not of the letter, but of the spirit: for the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life.
- 2Cor 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 glo
- 2Cor 5:14 — For the love of Christ constraineth us; because we thus judge, that if one died for all, then were all dead:
- 2Cor 5:21 — 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.
- 2Cor 11:15 — Therefore it is no great thing if his ministers also be transformed as the ministers of righteousness; whose end shall be according to their works.
- Deut 33:2 — And he said, The LORD came from Sinai, and rose up from Seir unto them; he shined forth from mount Paran, and he came with ten thousands of saints: from his right hand went a fiery law for them.
- Hag 2:9 — The glory of this latter house shall be greater than of the former, saith the LORD of hosts: and in this place will I give peace, saith the LORD of hosts.
- Heb 5:13 — For every one that useth milk is unskilful in the word of righteousness: for he is a babe.
- Heb 12:18 — For ye are not come unto the mount that might be touched, and that burned with fire, nor unto blackness, and darkness, and tempest,
- Heb 12:18 — For ye are not come unto the mount that might be touched, and that burned with fire, nor unto blackness, and darkness, and tempest,
- Luke 11:13 — If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children: how much more shall your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to them that ask him?
- Rom 3:21 — But now the righteousness of God without the law is manifested, being witnessed by the law and the prophets;