2 Corinthians 3:5

Not that I am sufficient in myself to reach any conclusion in my own wisdom; but my sufficiency is from God.

Montgomery New Testament

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

4Such confidence I have through Christ before God.

6It is he who has also made me sufficient as a minister of a new covenant; not of a letter but of a spirit; for the letter kills, but the spirit makes alive.

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Cross References

Luke 21:15"for I will give you utterance and a wisdom which none of your adversaries will be able to answer or withstand.

John 15:5"I am the Vine you are the branches. He who abides in me and I in him, bears abundant fruit; because apart from me you can do nothing.

1 Corinthians 3:10According to the grace of God vouchsafed me, like a skillful master- builder, I have laid a foundation; but another will be building upon it. Let each take heed how he builds on it.

2 Corinthians 2:16to these latter an odor of death to death, to the former, of life to life. For such service as this, who is sufficient?

2 Corinthians 12:9but he has answered me. "My grace is sufficient for you; it is in weakness that my power is perfected."

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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