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2 Corinthians 3:5

For we are not sufficient to think any thing as of ourselves; but our power is from Aloha,

The Peschito Syriac New Testament: Translated into English by John Wesley Etheridge

In The King James Version

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

In Context

4BUT such confidence we have through the Meshiha toward Aloha.

6who hath made us fit to be ministers of the new covenant, not in the writing, but in the spirit. For the writing killeth, but the Spirit maketh alive.

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Cross References

Luke 21:15for I will give you a mouth and wisdom which all your adversaries cannot stand against.

John 15:5I am the vine, and you the branches. Whoso abideth in me, and I in him, this produceth much fruits, because without me you cannot do any thing.

1 Corinthians 3:10And according to the grace of Aloha which is given to me, I have laid the foundation as a wise architect; but another hath built upon it.

2 Corinthians 2:16To these as a perfume of death unto death, and to those as a perfume of life unto life. And unto these who is equal?

2 Corinthians 12:9And he said to me, My grace sufficeth thee; for my power in weakness is perfected. Gladly therefore will I boast in my infirmities, that the power of the Meshiha may overshadow me.

Matthew Henry on 2 Corinthians 3:2-6

Apology for Seeming Self-Commendation. ( a. d. 57.) 1 Do we begin again to commend ourselves? or need we, as some others, epistles of commendation to you, or letters of commendation from you? 2 Ye are our epistle written in our hearts, known and read of all men: 3 Forasmuch as ye are manifestly declared to be the epistle of Christ ministered by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; not in tables of stone, but in fleshy tables of the heart. 4 And such trust have we through Christ to… Read the whole commentary →

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