2 Corinthians 3

Which worship songs are based on 2 Corinthians 3?

Garden in Manhattan — Josiah Queen (2023) 2 Corinthians 3:2-3
The singer portrays his life as a divinely authored text that other people can read, closely paralleling Paul's description of believers as letters from Christ known and read by others.
WHAT LIVING IS ALL ABOUT — Forrest Frank (2024) 2 Corinthians 3:16
The testimony explicitly identifies Paul's imagery of a veil obscuring spiritual understanding and its removal when a person turns to the Lord.
Looking At You — Sara Peyton King (2026) 2 Corinthians 3:16-18
The removed veil and sustained gaze toward God closely evoke Paul’s description of the veil being taken away in the Lord and believers beholding his glory with unveiled faces.
More Of You (Live) — Hope Darst (2025) 2 Corinthians 3:17
The song closely echoes Paul's declaration that freedom is found wherever the Spirit of the Lord is present. The surrounding emphasis on the Spirit's transforming presence strengthens the identification.
More Of You (Live) — The Belonging Co, Hope Darst (2023) 2 Corinthians 3:17
The song closely echoes Paul's declaration that freedom is present wherever the Lord's Spirit is.
WTSOTLI - LAEL Remix — Christine D'Clario (2021) 2 Corinthians 3:17
The first verse directly reproduces Paul’s declaration that freedom is present where the Lord’s Spirit is.
Freedom — Jesus Culture (2018) 2 Corinthians 3:17
The chorus directly reproduces Paul's declaration that freedom is found where the Lord's Spirit is present.
There Is Freedom — Josh Baldwin (2022) 2 Corinthians 3:17
The chorus directly repeats Paul’s declaration that the presence of the Lord’s Spirit brings freedom.
Free, Amen - Live — We the Kingdom (2019) 2 Corinthians 3:17
The chorus directly reproduces Paul’s declaration that freedom is present wherever the Lord’s Spirit is present.
In Your Presence — William McDowell & Israel Houghton (2017) 2 Corinthians 3:17
The bridge associates the immediate presence of the Lord with freedom taking effect among the gathered worshippers, closely reflecting Paul's statement that liberty is found where the Spirit of the Lord is.
I Will Be Undignified — Rend Collective (2018) 2 Corinthians 3:17
The declaration that liberty is found in God's presence closely paraphrases Paul's statement that freedom exists wherever the Spirit of the Lord is.
Where The Spirit Of The Lord Is — Christine D'Clario (2021) 2 Corinthians 3:17
The song’s central declaration directly reproduces Paul’s teaching that freedom is present wherever the Lord’s Spirit is.
Despite the Rain — Between Thieves (2025) 2 Corinthians 3:18
The mirror imagery, in which the speaker increasingly reflects God as inward transformation occurs, closely resembles Paul's description of believers beholding and being transformed into the Lord's image.
Grace Is On Our Side — Vertical Worship (2020) 2 Corinthians 3:18
The bridge uses Paul’s distinctive expression for believers’ progressive transformation into Christ’s image through increasing glory.
Beautiful Hands (Live) — Phyllis Unkefer & Cageless Birds (2025) 2 Corinthians 3:18
The bridge closely reflects Paul's teaching that beholding the Lord's glory transforms believers progressively into his likeness.
I'd Never Know — Hawk Nelson (2018) 2 Corinthians 3:18
The bridge uses Paul's distinctive progression from one degree of glory to another, framing God's work as an ongoing movement of transformation.
Be Glad — SOZO Kids & Worship Together Kids (2022) 2 Corinthians 3:18
The repeated progression between degrees of glory uses Paul's distinctive language for believers being progressively transformed into the Lord's image.
Not Yet — Chris Renzema (2018) 2 Corinthians 3:18
The chorus combines Paul's image of beholding divine glory with an unveiled face and being transformed into the same likeness with John's promise that believers will become like Christ when they see him directly.
Hope Says — Consumed by Fire (2023) 2 Corinthians 3:18
The song adopts Paul’s distinctive language for progressive transformation into God’s image, applying it to God’s continuing work in a person’s unfinished life.
Be Glad (Live) — Cody Carnes (2023) 2 Corinthians 3:18
The repeated progression through increasing glory adopts Paul's language for believers' continuing transformation into the Lord's image.
Glory 2 Glory — KB (2023) 2 Corinthians 3:18
The recurring title and refrain reproduce Paul’s language for believers being progressively transformed as they reflect the Lord’s glory. The song’s emphasis on visible, reflected radiance reinforces this connection.
Plead The Blood - Live — Cody Carnes (2023) 2 Corinthians 3:18
The description of the believer’s future as progressing from one degree of glory to another uses Paul’s distinctive language for transformation into the Lord’s image.
Good Hands — Allie Paige (2017) 2 Corinthians 3:18
The recurring progression between degrees of glory draws on Paul's description of believers being progressively transformed into the Lord's image.
Beautiful Story — Newsboys (2019) 2 Corinthians 3:18
The chorus uses Paul's distinctive language for progressive transformation into the Lord's image through increasing glory.
Só Quero Ver Você — Gabriel Guedes de Almeida (2017) 2 Corinthians 3:18
The claim that contemplating Jesus progressively makes the worshiper more like him closely paraphrases Paul’s teaching that beholding the Lord’s glory transforms believers into his image.
1,000 Promises — Building 429 (2018) 2 Corinthians 3:18
The bridge directly adopts Paul's distinctive language for progressive transformation into the Lord's image from one degree of glory to another.

2 Corinthians 3 (King James Version)

¹ Do we begin again to commend ourselves? or need we, as some others, epistles of commendation to you, or letters of commendation from you?

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.

⁴ And such trust have we through Christ to God-ward:

⁵ Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think any thing as of ourselves; but our sufficiency is of God;

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.

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?

⁹ For if the ministration of condemnation be glory, much more doth the ministration of righteousness exceed in glory.

¹⁰ For even that which was made glorious had no glory in this respect, by reason of the glory that excelleth.

¹¹ For if that which is done away was glorious, much more that which remaineth is glorious.

¹² Seeing then that we have such hope, we use great plainness of speech:

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.

¹⁵ But even unto this day, when Moses is read, the vail is upon their heart.

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.

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.