2 Corinthians 3:5

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2 Corinthians 3:5

It is not that we are competent in ourselves to consider anything as coming from ourselves, but our competence is from God.

1 Corinthians 15:10

But by God’s grace I am what I am, and His grace toward me was not ineffective. However, I worked more than any of them, yet not I, but God’s grace that was with me.

Exodus 4:10-16

But Moses replied to the Lord, “Please, Lord, I have never been eloquent—either in the past or recently or since You have been speaking to Your servant—because I am slow and hesitant in speech.”

Jeremiah 1:6-10

But I protested, “Oh no, Lord, God! Look, I don’t know how to speak since I am only a youth.”

Matthew 10:19-20

But when they hand you over, don’t worry about how or what you should speak. For you will be given what to say at that hour,

Luke 21:15

for I will give you such words and a wisdom that none of your adversaries will be able to resist or contradict.

Luke 24:49

And look, I am sending you what My Father promised. As for you, stay in the city until you are empowered from on high.”

John 15:5

“I am the vine; you are the branches. The one who remains in Me and I in him produces much fruit, because you can do nothing without Me.

1 Corinthians 3:6

I planted, Apollos watered, but God gave the growth.

1 Corinthians 3:10

According to God’s grace that was given to me, I have laid a foundation as a skilled master builder, and another builds on it. But each one must be careful how he builds on it.

2 Corinthians 2:16

To some we are an aroma of death leading to death, but to others, an aroma of life leading to life. And who is competent for this?

2 Corinthians 4:7

Now we have this treasure in clay jars, so that this extraordinary power may be from God and not from us.

2 Corinthians 12:9

But He said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for power is perfected in weakness.” Therefore, I will most gladly boast all the more about my weaknesses, so that Christ’s power may reside in me.

Philippians 2:13

For it is God who is working in you, enabling you both to desire and to work out His good purpose.

Philippians 4:13

I am able to do all things through Him who strengthens me.

James 1:17

Every generous act and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights; with Him there is no variation or shadow cast by turning.

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Summary

2 Corinthians 3:5

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

But

General references

Exodus 3:11

Deuteronomy 1:12

Bible References

But

But He said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for power

is perfected in weakness.”

Therefore, I will most gladly boast all the more about my weaknesses, so that Christ’s power may reside in me.

Yahweh said to him, “Who made the human mouth? Who makes him mute or deaf, seeing or blind? Is it not I, Yahweh?

But I protested, “Oh no, Lord, God! Look, I don’t know how to speak since I am only a youth.”

But when they hand you over, don’t worry about how or what you should speak. For you will be given what to say at that hour,

for I will give you such words

and a wisdom that none of your adversaries will be able to resist or contradict.

And look, I am sending you what My Father promised. As for you, stay in the city until you are empowered

from on high.”

I planted, Apollos watered, but God gave the growth.

But by God’s grace I am what I am, and His grace toward me was not ineffective. However, I worked more than any of them, yet not I, but God’s grace that was with me.

For it is God who is working in you, enabling you both to desire and to work out His good purpose.

I am able to do all things through Him who strengthens me.

Every generous act and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights; with Him there is no variation or shadow cast by turning.

General references

But Moses asked God, “Who am I that I should go to Pharaoh and that I should bring the Israelites out of Egypt?”

But how can I bear your troubles, burdens, and disputes by myself?