2 Corinthians 3:5
3 It is clear 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 before God is ours through Christ.
Not that we are competent in ourselves to claim that anything comes from us, but our competence comes from God.
6 And He has qualified us 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 of death, which was engraved in letters on stone, came with such glory that the Israelites could not gaze at the face of Moses because of its fleeting glory,
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Sammenlign
- ÅB
- ikke at vi av oss selv duer til å uttenke noe som av oss selv, men vår duelighet er av Gud,
- OTB
- Ikke at vi er tilstrekkelige i oss selv til å hevde noe som kommer fra oss, men vår tilstrekkelighet er fra Gud,
- B1930
- ikke at vi av oss selv duer til å uttenke noget som av oss selv, men vår duelighet er av Gud,
- BSB
- Not that we are competent in ourselves to claim that anything comes from us, but our competence comes from God.
- KJV
- Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think any thing as of ourselves; but our sufficiency is of God;
- WEB
- not that we are sufficient of ourselves to account anything as from ourselves; but our sufficiency is from God,
- ASV
- not that we are sufficient of ourselves, to account anything as from ourselves; but our sufficiency is from God;
- DARBY
- not that we are competent of ourselves to think anything as of ourselves, but our competency [is] of God;
- BLB
- Not that we are sufficient from ourselves to reckon anything as of ourselves, but our sufficiency [is] of God,
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2 Corinthians 12:9
But He said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for My power is perfected in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly in my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may rest on me.
Les i sammenhengPhilippians 4:13
I can do all things through Christ who gives me strength.
Les i sammenheng1 Corinthians 15:10
But by the grace of God I am what I am, and His grace to me was not in vain. No, I worked harder than all of them—yet not I, but the grace of God that was with me.
Les i sammenhengPhilippians 2:13
For it is God who works in you to will and to act on behalf of His good purpose.
Les i sammenhengJohn 15:5
I am the vine and you are the branches. The one who remains in Me, and I in him, will bear much fruit. For apart from Me you can do nothing.
Les i sammenhengJames 1:17
Every good and perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of the heavenly lights, with whom there is no change or shifting shadow.
Les i sammenhengMatthew 10:19–20
But when they hand you over, do not worry about how to respond or what to say. In that hour you will be given what to say.
Les i sammenheng1 Corinthians 3:6
I planted the seed and Apollos watered it, but God made it grow.
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