2 Corinthians 3:5
King James Version (KJV)
Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think any thing as of ourselves; but our sufficiency is of God;
In context
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:
2 Corinthians 3:5 in every translation
- 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,
- BSB Berean Standard Bible
- Not that we are competent in ourselves to claim that anything comes from us, but our competence comes 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;