2 Corinthians 3:5

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3 clearly you are an epistle of Christ, ^aministered by us, written not with ink but by the Spirit of the living God, not ^bon tablets of stone but ^con tablets of flesh, that is, of the heart.

The Spirit, Not the Letter

4 And we have such trust through Christ toward God.

5 ^aNot that we are sufficient of ourselves to think of anything as being from ourselves, but ^bour sufficiency is from God,

6 who also made us sufficient as ^aministers of ^bthe new covenant, not ^cof the letter but of the Spirit; for ^dthe letter kills, ^ebut the Spirit gives life.

Glory of the New Covenant

7 But if ^athe ministry of death, ^bwritten and engraved on stones, was glorious, ^cso that the children of Israel could not look steadily at the face of Moses because of the glory of his countenance, which glory was passing away,

8 how will ^athe ministry of the Spirit not be more glorious?

9 For if the ministry of condemnation had glory, the ministry ^aof righteousness exceeds much more in glory.

10 For even what was made glorious had no glory in this respect, because of the glory that excels.

11 For if what is passing away was glorious, what remains is much more glorious.

Verse Comparison: 2 Corinthians 3:5

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

Amplified® Bible
Not that we are fit (qualified and sufficient in ability) of ourselves to form personal judgments {or} to claim {or} count anything as coming from us, but our power {and} ability {and} sufficiency are from God.

Contemporary English Version
We don't have the right to claim that we have done anything on our own. God gives us what it takes to do all that we do.

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

Good News Bible
There is nothing in us that allows us to claim that we are capable of doing this work. The capacity we have comes from God;

International Standard Version
By ourselves we are not qualified to claim that anything comes from us. Rather, our credentials come from God,

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

New American Standard Bible
Not that we are adequate in ourselves to consider anything as {coming} from ourselves, but our adequacy is from God,

New International Version
Not that we are competent in ourselves to claim anything for ourselves, but our competence comes from God.

New King James Version
Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think of anything as being from ourselves, but our sufficiency is from God,

N.A.S.B. in E-Prime
Not that we feel adequate in ourselves to consider anything as coming from ourselves, but our adequacy derives from God,

Young's Literal Translation
not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think anything, as of ourselves, but our sufficiency `is' of God,

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