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2 Corinthians 3:18 KJV
2 Corinthians · chapter 3 · verse 18
But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the LORD.2 Corinthians 3:18 · King James Version
2 Corinthians 3:18 in context
16Nevertheless when it shall turn to the Lord, the vail shall be taken away.
17Now the Lord is that Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.
18But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the LORD.
Commentary
Cross references
- 2 Corinthians 4:6
- Ephesians 4:22-24
- Romans 12:2
- 2 Corinthians 4:4
- 1 Corinthians 13:12
- Colossians 3:10
- Romans 8:29
- 1 Corinthians 15:49
Key words (Strong's)
- changedmetamorphoōto change into another form, to transform, to transfigure, Christ appearance was changed…G3339 →
- Spiritpneumathe third person of the triune God, the Holy Spirit, coequal, coeternal with the Father…G4151 →
- glorydoxaopinion, judgment, view, opinion, estimate, whether good or bad concerning someone, in…G1391 →
- imageeikōnan image, figure, likeness, an image of the things , used of the moral likeness of…G1504 →
- faceprosōponthe face, the front of the human head, countenance, look, the face so far forth as it is…G4383 →
- Lordkyrioshe to whom a person or thing belongs, about which he has power of deciding master, lord…G2962 →
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In these verses the apostle draws two inferences from what he had said about the Old and New Testament: - I. Concerning the duty of the ministers of the gospel to use great plainness or clearness of speech.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 12-18