Catholic Public Domain Version
"It is not that we are adequate to think anything of ourselves, as if anything was from us. But our adequacy is from God. "
— 2 Corinthians 3:5, Catholic Public Domain Version
“Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think any thing as of ourselves; but our sufficiency is of God;”
“not that we are sufficient of ourselves, to account anything as from ourselves; but our sufficiency is from God; ”
“not that we are sufficient of ourselves, to account anything as from ourselves; but our sufficiency is from God;”
“Not that we are adequate in ourselves to consider anything as if it were coming from ourselves, but our adequacy is from God,”
“Not that we are sufficient to think any thing of ourselves, as of ourselves: but our sufficiency is from God.”
“Not as if we were able by ourselves to do anything for which we might take the credit; but our power comes from God;”
“Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think any thing as of ourselves; but our sufficiency is of God;”
You are our Epistle, written in our hearts, which is known and read by all men.
It has been made manifest that you are the Epistle of Christ, ministered by us, and written down, not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God, and not on tablets of stone, but on the fleshly tablets of the heart.
And we have such faith, through Christ, toward God.
It is not that we are adequate to think anything of ourselves, as if anything was from us. But our adequacy is from God.
And he has made us suitable ministers of the New Testament, not in the letter, but in the Spirit. For the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.
But if the ministration of death, engraved with letters upon stones, was in glory, (so much so that the sons of Israel were not able to gaze intently upon the face of Moses, because of the glory of his countenance) even though this ministration was ineffective,
how could the ministration of the Spirit not be in greater glory?