| Allen Verhey - 1984 - 264 pagini
...fast therefore, and do not submit again to a yoke of slavery" (Gal. 5:1; cf. II Cor. 3:17, "Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom"). Freedom is a mark of the new age. The old age is marked by bondage — bondage to sir. and death, bondage... | |
| Witness Lee - 1985 - 254 pagini
...virtues for His expression in our humanity. Concerning this, Paul says in 2 Corinthians 3:17 and 18, "The Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom. And we all with unveiled face, beholding and reflecting as a mirror the glory of the Lord, are being... | |
| Georg Kühlewind - 1985 - 204 pagini
...likeness with what is seen so that he becomes not only the likeness but also the image of God: "But the Lord is the Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom. But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are metamorphosed into the... | |
| Richard J. Hauser - 1986 - 114 pagini
...less anxiety to more and more internal peace. I began to appreciate Paul's message in Corinthians: "Now this Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom" t2 Cor 3:l7). For the last twenty years this idea has remained uppermost in my own Christian living... | |
| Robert McQueen Grant - 1988 - 216 pagini
...converts' emphasis on freedom but insisted on theological content. He was quite willing to say that "the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom" (2 Cor. 3:17). He thus spoke of "Spirit" in the context of "Lord," and indeed could define "Spirit"... | |
| Stanley B. Marrow - 1986 - 292 pagini
...14). This fact too is what Paul tries to express in that puzzling section in 2 Corinthians: Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom. And we all, with unveiled face, beholding the glory of the Lord, are being changed into his likeness... | |
| Anthony A. Hoekema - 1994 - 282 pagini
...meaning. Paul also ties in true freedom with the work of the Spirit in 2 Corinthians 3 : 17, "Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom." That freedom, Paul goes on to say, means progressive transformation into the likeness of Christ: "And... | |
| Nancy Stark Muyskens - 2006 - 210 pagini
...the spirit; for the written code kills, but the spirit gives life" (II Corinthians 3:4-6). "Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom. And we all, with unveiled face, beholding the glory of the Lord, are being changed into his likeness... | |
| Joy Brewster - 2006 - 197 pagini
...test and approve what God's will is— his good, pleasing, and perfect will. (Romans 12:2) Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom. And we, who with unveiled faces all reflect the Lord's glory, are being transformed into his likeness... | |
| Lee Strobel, Garry Poole - 2005 - 83 pagini
...breath, aII mankind would perish together and man would return to the dust. (Job 34:14-15) Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom. (2 Corinthians 3:17) Because you are sons, God sent the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, the Spirit... | |
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