2 Corinthians 3:5

Berean Standard Bible (BSB)

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

In context

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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2 Corinthians 3:5 in every translation

BSB Berean Standard Bible: Not that we are competent in ourselves to claim that anything comes from us, but our competence comes from God.
KJV King James Version: Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think any thing as of ourselves; but our sufficiency is of God;
WEB World English Bible: not that we are sufficient of ourselves to account anything as from ourselves; but our sufficiency is from God,
ASV American Standard Version: not that we are sufficient of ourselves, to account anything as from ourselves; but our sufficiency is from God;
YLT Young's Literal Translation: not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think anything, as of ourselves, but our sufficiency [is] of God,
DBY Darby Translation: not that we are competent of ourselves to think anything as of ourselves, but our competency [is] of God;
WBS Webster Bible: Not that we are sufficient by ourselves to think any thing as from ourselves; but our sufficiency is from God;