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


In Context

2 You yourselves are our letter, written on our hearts, known and read by everybody.

3 You show 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 as this is ours through Christ before God.

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

6 He has made us competent 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 that brought death, which was engraved in letters on stone, came with glory, so that the Israelites could not look steadily at the face of Moses because of its glory, fading though it was,

2nd 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 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 Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

3:5not that we are competent of ourselves to think anything as of ourselves, but our competency is of 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;