2 Corinthians 3:6
New Testament • 12 words with Strong's data
"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."
Word-by-Word Analysis
עָשָׂה
ʻâsâh
to do or make, in the broadest sense and widest application
יָכֹל
yâkôl
to be able, literally (can, could) or morally (may, might)
שָׁרַת
shârath
to attend as a menial or worshipper; figuratively, to contribute to
διαθήκη
diathḗkē
properly, a disposition, i.e. (specially) a contract (especially a devisory will)
אִגְּרָא
ʼiggᵉrâʼ
an epistle (as carried by a state courier or postman)
רוּחַ
rûwach
wind; by resemblance breath, i.e. a sensible (or even violent) exhalation; figuratively, life, anger, unsubstantiality; by extension, a region of the ...
אִגְּרָא
ʼiggᵉrâʼ
an epistle (as carried by a state courier or postman)
נָכָה
nâkâh
to strike (lightly or severely, literally or figuratively)
רוּחַ
rûwach
wind; by resemblance breath, i.e. a sensible (or even violent) exhalation; figuratively, life, anger, unsubstantiality; by extension, a region of the ...
נָתַן
nâthan
to give, used with greatest latitude of application (put, make, etc.)
חַי
chay
alive; hence, raw (flesh); fresh (plant, water, year), strong; also (as noun, especially in the feminine singular and masculine plural) life (or livin...
Key Terms in This Verse
διαθήκη diathḗkē
properly, a disposition, i.e. (specially) a contract (especially a devisory will)
Study G1242 →שָׁרַת shârath
to attend as a menial or worshipper; figuratively, to contribute to
Study H8334 →נָתַן nâthan
to give, used with greatest latitude of application (put, make, etc.)
Study H5414 →חַי chay
alive; hence, raw (flesh); fresh (plant, water, year), strong; also (as noun, especially in the feminine singular and masculine plural) life (or living thing), whether literally or figuratively
Study H2416 →רוּחַ rûwach
wind; by resemblance breath, i.e. a sensible (or even violent) exhalation; figuratively, life, anger, unsubstantiality; by extension, a region of the sky; by resemblance spirit, but only of a rational...
Study H7307 →Cross References
It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life.
But now we are delivered from the law, that being dead wherein we were held; that we should serve in newness of spirit, and not in the oldness of the letter.
Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah:
For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death.
But their minds were blinded: for until this day remaineth the same vail untaken away in the reading of the old testament; which vail is done away in Christ.
And so it is written, The first man Adam was made a living soul; the last Adam was made a quickening spirit.
And to Jesus the mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling, that speaketh better things than that of Abel.
By so much was Jesus made a surety of a better testament.
Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in his sight: for by the law is the knowledge of sin.
Likewise also the cup after supper, saying, This cup is the new testament in my blood, which is shed for you.
Now the God of peace, that brought again from the dead our Lord Jesus, that great shepherd of the sheep, through the blood of the everlasting covenant,
Then said he unto them, Therefore every scribe which is instructed unto the kingdom of heaven is like unto a man that is an householder, which bringeth forth out of his treasure things new and old.
After the same manner also he took the cup, when he had supped, saying, This cup is the new testament in my blood: this do ye, as oft as ye drink it, in remembrance of me.
For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit:
Cursed be he that confirmeth not all the words of this law to do them. And all the people shall say, Amen.
If thou put the brethren in remembrance of these things, thou shalt be a good minister of Jesus Christ, nourished up in the words of faith and of good doctrine, whereunto thou hast attained.
Whereof I was made a minister, according to the gift of the grace of God given unto me by the effectual working of his power.
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...
Is the law then against the promises of God? God forbid: for if there had been a law given which could have given life, verily righteousness should have been by the law.
And God hath set some in the church, first apostles, secondarily prophets, thirdly teachers, after that miracles, then gifts of healings, helps, governments, diversities of tongues.
Who then is Paul, and who is Apollos, but ministers by whom ye believed, even as the Lord gave to every man?
Because the law worketh wrath: for where no law is, there is no transgression.
For this is my blood of the new testament, which is shed for many for the remission of sins.
And he said unto them, This is my blood of the new testament, which is shed for many.
For as the Father raiseth up the dead, and quickeneth them; even so the Son quickeneth whom he will.
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