2 Corinthians 3:17
Good News Translation
Now, "the Lord" in this passage is the Spirit; and where the Spirit of the Lord is present, there is freedom.

New Revised Standard Version
Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom.

Contemporary English Version
The Lord and the Spirit are one and the same, and the Lord's Spirit sets us free.

New American Bible
Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Now the Lord is a Spirit. And where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Now the Lord is a Spirit. And where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.

the Lord.

2 Corinthians 3:6 Who also hath made us fit ministers of the new testament, not in the letter but in the spirit. For the letter killeth: but the spirit quickeneth.

John 6:63 It is the spirit that quickeneth: the flesh profiteth nothing. The words that I have spoken to you are spirit and life.

1 Corinthians 15:45 The first man Adam was made into a living soul; the last Adam into a quickening spirit.

where.

Psalm 51:12 Restore unto me the joy of thy salvation, and strengthen me with a perfect spirit.

Isaiah 61:1 The spirit of the Lord is upon me, because the Lord hath anointed me: he hath sent me to preach to the meek, to heal the contrite of heart, and to preach a release to the captives, and deliverance to them that are shut up.

Romans 8:2,15,16 For the law of the spirit of life, in Christ Jesus, hath delivered me from the law of sin and of death. . . .

Galatians 4:6 And because you are sons, God hath sent the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying: Abba, Father.

2 Timothy 1:7 For God hath not given us the spirit of fear: but of power and of love and of sobriety.

Context
The Glory of the New Covenant
16But when they shall be converted to the Lord, the veil shall be taken away. 17Now the Lord is a Spirit. And where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty. 18But we all, beholding the glory of the Lord with open face, are transformed into the same image from glory to glory, as by the Spirit of the Lord.…
Cross References
Isaiah 61:1
The spirit of the Lord is upon me, because the Lord hath anointed me: he hath sent me to preach to the meek, to heal the contrite of heart, and to preach a release to the captives, and deliverance to them that are shut up.

John 8:32
And you shall know the truth: and the truth shall make you free.

2 Corinthians 3:18
But we all, beholding the glory of the Lord with open face, are transformed into the same image from glory to glory, as by the Spirit of the Lord.

Galatians 4:6
And because you are sons, God hath sent the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying: Abba, Father.

Galatians 5:1
Stand fast and be not held again under the yoke of bondage.

Galatians 5:13
For you, brethren, have been called unto liberty. Only make not liberty an occasion to the flesh: but by charity of the spirit serve one another.

2 Corinthians 3:16
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