5not that we are competent of ourselves to think anything as of ourselves, but our competency is of God;


In Context

2 Ye are our letter, written in our hearts, known and read of all men,

3 being manifested to be Christ's epistle ministered by us, written, not with ink, but the Spirit of the living God; not on stone tables, but on fleshy tables of the heart.

4 And such confidence have we through the Christ towards God:

5 not that we are competent of ourselves to think anything as of ourselves, but our competency is of God;

6 who has also made us competent, as ministers of the new covenant; not of letter, but of spirit. For the letter kills, but the Spirit quickens.

7 (But if the ministry of death, in letters, graven in stones, began with glory, so that the children of Israel could not fix their eyes on the face of Moses, on account of the glory of his face, a glory which is annulled;

2 Corinthians 3:5 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

3:5Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think any thing as of ourselves; but our sufficiency [is] of God;

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

3:5Not that we are competent in ourselves to claim anything for ourselves, but our competence comes from God.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

3:5Not that we are sufficient to think any thing of ourselves, as of ourselves: but our sufficiency is from God.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

3:5not that we are sufficient of ourselves, to account anything as from ourselves; but our sufficiency is from God;

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

3:5not that we are sufficient of ourselves, to account anything as from ourselves; but our sufficiency is from God;

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

3:5Not that we are sufficient by ourselves to think any thing as from ourselves; but our sufficiency is from God;

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

3:5not that we are sufficient of ourselves, to account anything as from ourselves; but our sufficiency is from God;

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

3:5not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think anything, as of ourselves, but our sufficiency is of God,

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

3:5Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think any thing as of ourselves; but our sufficiency is of God;