2 Corinthians 3:5
World English Bible (WEB)
not that we are sufficient of ourselves to account anything as from ourselves; but our sufficiency is from God,
In context
3 being revealed that you are a letter of Christ, served by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; not in tablets of stone, but in tablets that are hearts of flesh.
4 Such confidence we have through Christ toward God,
5 not that we are sufficient of ourselves to account anything as from ourselves; but our sufficiency is from God,
6 who also made us sufficient as servants of a new covenant, not of the letter but of the Spirit. For the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.
7 But if the service of death, written engraved on stones, came with glory, so that the children of Israel could not look steadfastly on the face of Moses for the glory of his face, which was passing away,
2 Corinthians 3:5 in every translation
- WEB World English Bible
- not that we are sufficient of ourselves to account anything as from ourselves; but our sufficiency is 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;
- 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;