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2 Corinthians 3:5

Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think any thing as of ourselves; but our sufficiency is of God;
2 Corinthians 3:5 · King James Version

In other versions

  • not that we are sufficient of ourselves, to account anything as from ourselves; but our sufficiency is from God;

    ASV

  • Not as if we were able by ourselves to do anything for which we might take the credit; but our power comes from God;

    BBE

  • not that we are competent of ourselves to think anything as of ourselves, but our competency [is] of God;

    DBY

  • not that we are sufficient of ourselves, to account anything as from ourselves; but our sufficiency is from God;

    WEB

  • not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think anything, as of ourselves, but our sufficiency `is' of God,

    YLT

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

    ENG

  • Not that we are sufficient by ourselves to think any thing as from ourselves; but our sufficiency is from God;

    WBT

  • Not that we are competent in ourselves to claim that anything comes from us, but our competence comes from God.

    BSB

In context

3Forasmuch 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.

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

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

6Who 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.

7But 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:

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