17 Now the Lord is the Spirit, but where the Spirit of [the] Lord [is, there is] liberty.
For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has set me free from the law of sin and of death.
But because ye are sons, God has sent out the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, crying, Abba, Father.
For *ye* have been called to liberty, brethren; only [do] not [turn] liberty into an opportunity to the flesh, but by love serve one another.
The Spirit of the Lord Jehovah is upon me, because Jehovah hath anointed me to announce glad tidings unto the meek; he hath sent me to bind up the broken-hearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and opening of the prison to them that are bound; to proclaim the acceptable year of Jehovah, and the day of vengeance of our God; to comfort all that mourn;
For God has not given us a spirit of cowardice, but of power, and of love, and of wise discretion.
Restore unto me the joy of thy salvation, and let a willing spirit sustain me.
Christ has set us free in freedom; stand fast therefore, and be not held again in a yoke of bondage.
Thus also it is written, The first man Adam became a living soul; the last Adam a quickening spirit.
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Commentary on 2 Corinthians 3 Matthew Henry Commentary
Chapter 3
The apostle makes an apology for his seeming to commend himself, and is careful not to assume too much to himself, but to ascribe all praise unto God (v. 1-5). He then draws a comparison between the Old Testament and the New, and shows the excellency of the later above the former (v. 6-11), whence he infers what is the duty of gospel ministers, and the advantage of those who live under the gospel above those who lived under the law (v. 12-18).
2Cr 3:1-5
In these verses,
2Cr 3:6-11
Here the apostle makes a comparison between the Old Testament and the New, the law of Moses and the gospel of Jesus Christ, and values himself and his fellow-labourers by this, that they were able ministers of the New Testament, that God had made them so, v. 6. This he does in answer to the accusations of false teachers, who magnify greatly the law of Moses.
2Cr 3:12-18
In these verses the apostle draws two inferences from what he had said about the Old and New Testament:-