2 Corinthians 3:5

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2 Corinthians 3:5

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BSB

Berean Standard Bible

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

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KJV

King James Version

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

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WEB

World English Bible

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

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ASV

American Standard Version

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

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BLB

Berean Literal Bible

Not that we are sufficient from ourselves to reckon anything as of ourselves, but our sufficiency [is] of God,

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READ IN CONTEXT · BSB

2 Corinthians 3

³ It is clear that you are a letter from Christ, the result of our ministry, written not with ink but with the Spirit of the living God, not on tablets of stone but on tablets of human hearts.

⁴ Such confidence before God is ours through Christ.

⁵ Not that we are competent in ourselves to claim that anything comes from us, but our competence comes from God.

⁶ And He has qualified us as ministers of a new covenant, not of the letter but of the Spirit; for the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.

⁷ Now if the ministry of death, which was engraved in letters on stone, came with such glory that the Israelites could not gaze at the face of Moses because of its fleeting glory,

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