Posts Tagged ‘Rom.3:23’

In 2Cor.3 Paul lays out the case for the glory of the Old Testament. And the much more glory in it’s successor The New Testament. He says in vs.7-9, “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: How shall not the ministration of the spirit be rather glorious? For if the ministration of condemnation be glory, much more doth the ministration of righteousness exceed in glory.” The glory in both the New and the Old testaments is the presence of God. A presence Paul says in Rom.3:23 all men are in need of saying, “All have sinned/missed the mark and fallen short of/lack the glory/presence of God”. In the Old Testament that glory, God’s presence…