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2 Corinthians 3:5

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

Not {G3756} that {G3754} we are {G2070} sufficient {G2425} of {G575} ourselves {G1438} to think {G3049} any thing {G5100} as {G5613} of {G1537} ourselves {G1438}; but {G235} our {G2257} sufficiency {G2426} is of {G1537} God {G2316};

It is not that we are competent in ourselves to count anything as having come from us; on the contrary, our competence is from God.

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

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

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Cross-References

  • 2 Corinthians 12:9 (28 votes)

    And he said unto me, My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me.

  • Philippians 4:13 (24 votes)

    I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me.

  • 1 Corinthians 15:10 (22 votes)

    But by the grace of God I am what I am: and his grace which [was bestowed] upon me was not in vain; but I laboured more abundantly than they all: yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me.

  • Philippians 2:13 (18 votes)

    For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of [his] good pleasure.

  • John 15:5 (18 votes)

    I am the vine, ye [are] the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing.

  • James 1:17 (13 votes)

    Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning.

  • Matthew 10:19 (9 votes)

    But when they deliver you up, take no thought how or what ye shall speak: for it shall be given you in that same hour what ye shall speak.