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2 Corinthians 3:6
who made us adequate to be servants of a new covenant not based on the letter but on the Spirit, for the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.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.And He has qualified us as ministers of a new covenant, not of the letter but of the Spirit; for the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.ὃς καὶ ἱκάνωσεν ἡμᾶς διακόνους καινῆς διαθήκης, οὐ γράμματος ἀλλὰ πνεύματος, τὸ γὰρ γράμμα ἀποκτέννει, τὸ δὲ πνεῦμα ζῳοποιεῖ.The new covenant, in the original languages
In 2 Corinthians 3, Paul draws on God’s promise in Jeremiah 31 to write his law on our hearts. Here it is in Hebrew, in the Greek of the Septuagint, and in English.
כִּ֣י זֹ֣את הַבְּרִ֡ית אֲשֶׁ֣ר אֶכְרֹת֩ אֶת־בֵּ֨ית יִשְׂרָאֵ֜ל אַחֲרֵ֨י הַיָּמִ֤ים הָהֵם֙ נְאֻם־יְהוָ֔ה נָתַ֤תִּי אֶת־תּֽוֹרָתִי֙ בְּקִרְבָּ֔ם וְעַל־לִבָּ֖ם אֶכְתֲּבֶ֑נָּה וְהָיִ֤יתִי לָהֶם֙ לֵֽאלֹהִ֔ים וְהֵ֖מָּה יִֽהְיוּ־לִ֥י לְעָֽם׃ὅτι αὕτη ἡ διαθήκη μου ἣν διαθήσομαι τῷ οἴκῳ Ἰσραήλ Μετὰ τὰς ἡμέρας ἐκείνας, φησὶν Κύριος, διδοὺς δώσω νόμους μου εἰς τὴν διάνοιαν αὐτῶν, καὶ ἐπὶ καρδίας αὐτῶν γράψω αὐτούς, καὶ ἔσομαι αὐτοῖς εἰς θεὸν καὶ αὐτοὶ ἔσονταί μοι εἰς λαόν.But this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel; After those days, saith the LORD, I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and will be their God, and they shall be my people.Free to use in full
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| BSB Berean Standard Bible | English | Public domain (dedicated 30 April 2023) | None; attribution optional. Changed wording should not use the Berean name. |
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| WLC Westminster Leningrad Codex, via the Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible | Hebrew (Old Testament) | Text: public domain. Lemma and morphology: CC BY 4.0 | None for the text. If the OSHB lemma or morphology data is used, credit the Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible Project. |
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| LXX Swete Swete's Septuagint, Open Greek and Latin digital text | Greek (Old Testament) | CC BY-SA 4.0 (digital text) | Credit the source; changed text must be shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Avoid Rahlfs (1935), which the German Bible Society still treats as copyrighted. |
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- Hebrew quotations marked WLC are from the Westminster Leningrad Codex, which is in the public domain, as distributed by the Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible Project (lemma and morphology data licensed CC BY 4.0).
- Greek New Testament quotations marked SBLGNT are from the SBL Greek New Testament. Copyright © 2010 Society of Biblical Literature and Logos Bible Software. Licensed under CC BY 4.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0). Source: sblgnt.com.
- Septuagint quotations marked LXX Swete are from H. B. Swete, The Old Testament in Greek according to the Septuagint, digital text by the Open Greek and Latin Project (First1KGreek) as published in lxx-swete (github.com/nathans/lxx-swete). Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0).