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WHAT DID PAUL MEAN BY SAYING HE WAS AN ABLE MINISTER?
By: doug Date: November 9, 2025, 2:18 pm
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What did Paul mean by saying he was an able minister of the new
testament? In order to answer this we must look at surrounding
verses.
[2Corinthians 3:2-3 KJV] 2 Ye are our epistle written in our
hearts, known and read of all men: 3 [Forasmuch as ye are]
manifestly declared to be the epistle of Christ ministered by
us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God;
not in tables of stone, but in fleshy tables of the
heart..........Paul is saying the epistle written in their
hearts was written by the Spirit. Paul in this passage focus is
on the Spirit.
[2Corinthians 3:5 KJV] 5 Not that we are sufficient of ourselves
to think any thing as of ourselves; but our sufficiency [is] of
God;..........Paul is not sufficient to minister, God is. Paul
is made an able minister by God's grace and
Spirit.............[2Corinthians 3:6 KJV] 6 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...........Paul was ministering the Spirit not the law of
the old testament.
[2Corinthians 3:7-8 KJV] 7 But if the ministration of death,
written [and] engraven in stones, was glorious, so that the
children of Israel could not stedfastly behold the face of Moses
for the glory of his countenance; which [glory] was to be done
away: 8 How shall not the ministration of the spirit be rather
glorious?............The ten commandments were written in stones
and were glorious, but the law was to be done away. More
glorious is the ministration of the Spirit written in our hearts
and not tables of stone.
[2Corinthians 3:9, 11 KJV] 9 For if the ministration of
condemnation [be] glory, much more doth the ministration of
righteousness exceed in glory. ... 11 For if that which is done
away [was] glorious, much more that which remaineth [is]
glorious..........The commandments and the law condemned us, but
the ministration of the Spirit brings righteousness and
exceeding glory.
[2Corinthians 3:13-14 KJV] 13 And not as Moses, [which] put a
vail over his face, that the children of Israel could not
stedfastly look to the end of that which is abolished: 14 But
their minds were blinded: for until this day remaineth the same
vail untaken away in the reading of the old testament; which
[vail] is done away in Christ............The children of Israel
were blinded by the old testament law and could not see it's
end............[2Corinthians 3:16-17 KJV] 16 Nevertheless when
it shall turn to the Lord, the vail shall be taken away. 17 Now
the Lord is that Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord [is],
there [is] liberty.........The veil over Mosses face is taken
away when it turns to the Lord, and the Lord is that
Spirit............[Romans 8:2 KJV] 2 For the law of the Spirit
of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin
and death [Romans 6:4 KJV] 4 Therefore we are buried with him by
baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the
dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in
newness of life. .........Christ died to free us from the
bondage of sin and rose to give us the liberty to walk in
newness of life......[2Corinthians 3:18 KJV] 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.........our faces are not veiled as by
the old testament, but are changed to reflect the glory of the
Lord by the Spirit of the Lord.
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