These words, which I am ordering you today, are to be on your heart; and you are to teach them carefully to your children. You are to talk about them when you sit at home, when you are traveling on the road, when you lie down and when you get up. (Deuteronomy 6:6-7)
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2 Corinthians 3
Brit Hadashah 18 verses
- 1 Do you say that this is self-recommendation once more? Or do we need, as some do, letters of recommendation to you or from you?
- 2 Our letter of recommendation is yourselves—a letter written on our hearts and everywhere known and read.
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For all can see that you are a letter of entrusted to our care, and written not with ink, but with the of the ever-living —and not on tablets of stone, but on human hearts as tablets.
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Jeremiah 31:33 Ezekiel 11:19 Hebrews 8:10 Matthew 16:16 Exodus 24:12 Proverbs 3:3 2 Corinthians 6:16 1 Thessalonians 1:9 Psalm 84:2 Psalm 42:2 Exodus 31:18 Psalm 40:8 Ezekiel 36:25-27 Proverbs 7:3 1 Samuel 17:26 Hebrews 10:16 Exodus 34:1 Hebrews 9:14 Joshua 3:10 Revelation 2:18 Revelation 2:8 Jeremiah 10:10 Revelation 2:1 Jeremiah 17:1 Revelation 2:12 Revelation 3:14 Revelation 3:7 1 Corinthians 8:5-10 Revelation 3:1 Daniel 6:26 Revelation 3:22 -
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Such is the confidence which we have through in the presence of ;
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- 5 not that of ourselves we are competent to decide anything by our own reasonings, but our competency comes from .
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It is He also who has made us competent to Him in connexion with a new Covenant, which is not a written code but a ; for the written code inflicts death, but the gives Life.
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John 6:63 Jeremiah 31:31 Romans 7:6 1 Corinthians 11:25 Luke 22:20 1 John 1:1 2 Corinthians 3:14 Romans 8:2 Ephesians 3:7 Ephesians 2:5 1 Corinthians 3:5 Galatians 3:21 Matthew 13:52 Romans 3:20 Matthew 26:28 Romans 1:5 Hebrews 7:22 2 Timothy 1:11 Hebrews 8:6-10 1 Corinthians 15:45 Hebrews 9:15-20 1 Corinthians 3:10 Hebrews 13:20 2 Corinthians 5:18-20 Romans 7:9-11 Romans 4:17 1 Corinthians 12:28 1 Timothy 4:6 1 Timothy 1:11-12 Mark 14:24 Galatians 3:10-12 John 5:21 Ephesians 2:1 Colossians 1:25-29 1 Peter 3:18 2 Corinthians 3:7 Deuteronomy 27:26 2 Corinthians 3:9 Hebrews 12:24 Romans 4:15 Romans 2:27-29 Ephesians 4:11-12 -
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If, however, the service that proclaims death—its code being engraved in writing upon stones—came with , so that the children of could not look steadily on the face of because of the brightness of his face—a vanishing brightness;
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Exodus 31:18 Romans 10:4 Exodus 24:12 Romans 7:10 2 Corinthians 3:6 2 Corinthians 3:9-11 2 Corinthians 3:3 1 Corinthians 13:10 Luke 9:29-31 Romans 7:22 Nehemiah 9:13 Psalm 119:174 Psalm 119:97 Deuteronomy 9:15 Deuteronomy 10:1-4 Acts 6:15 Psalm 19:7-8 Romans 4:15 Exodus 34:1 Deuteronomy 4:13 Romans 7:12-14 Genesis 3:21 Exodus 34:28-35 Exodus 32:19 Deuteronomy 4:8 Deuteronomy 9:9-11 Deuteronomy 5:22 Exodus 32:15-16 2 Corinthians 3:13-14 Hebrews 9:4 Psalm 119:127-128 -
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will not the service of the be far more glorious?
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Galatians 5:22-23 Isaiah 44:3 Galatians 5:5 2 Corinthians 3:6 1 Corinthians 12:4-11 Isaiah 11:2 Jude 1:19-20 John 7:39 Isaiah 59:21 2 Thessalonians 2:13 2 Corinthians 3:17 Galatians 3:14 Galatians 3:2-5 1 Corinthians 3:16 Acts 2:32-33 Acts 2:17-18 Romans 8:9-16 John 1:17 2 Corinthians 11:4 Ephesians 2:18 1 Peter 1:2 Joel 2:28-29 -
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For if the service which pronounces doom had , far more glorious still is the service which tells of .
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Hebrews 12:18-21 Romans 3:21-22 Galatians 5:4-5 2 Peter 1:1 2 Corinthians 5:21 2 Corinthians 3:6-7 1 Corinthians 15:41 Galatians 3:10 Romans 1:17-18 Romans 5:15-21 Romans 4:11 Exodus 19:12-19 2 Corinthians 3:10-11 Hebrews 3:5-6 Romans 8:3-4 Exodus 20:18-19 Romans 10:3-10 Jeremiah 23:6 1 Corinthians 1:30 Isaiah 46:13 Philippians 3:9 -
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For, in fact, that which was once resplendent in has no at all in this respect, that it pales before the which surpasses it.
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For if that which was to be abolished came with , much more is that which is permanent arrayed in .
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- 12 Therefore, cherishing a like this, we speak without reserve, and we do not imitate ,
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who used to throw a veil over his face to hide from the gaze of the children of the passing away of what was but transitory.
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Nay, their minds were made dull; for to this very day during the reading of the book of the ancient Covenant, the same veil remains unlifted, because it is only in that it is to be abolished.
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2 Corinthians 4:3-4 Acts 26:18 Romans 11:25 Ephesians 1:17-20 Acts 16:14 2 Corinthians 4:6 Matthew 6:23 Isaiah 25:7 Isaiah 6:10 Isaiah 59:10 Jeremiah 5:21 Romans 11:7-10 John 12:40 Luke 18:31-34 Matthew 13:13-15 Isaiah 44:18 Acts 13:15 Isaiah 56:10 Matthew 13:11 Luke 24:44-46 Isaiah 26:10-12 John 9:39-41 John 8:12 John 12:46 Isaiah 42:18-20 Luke 24:25-27 Matthew 16:17 Psalm 69:23 Acts 28:26-27 Ezekiel 12:2 2 Corinthians 3:6 -
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Yes, to this day, whenever is read, a veil lies upon their hearts.
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- 16 But whenever the of the nation shall have returned to the Lord, the veil will be withdrawn.
- 17 Now by “the Lord” is meant the ; and where the of the Lord is, freedom is enjoyed.
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And all of us, with unveiled faces, reflecting like bright mirrors the of the Lord, are being transformed into the same likeness, from one degree of radiant holiness to another, even as derived from the Lord the .
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