 | Charles Bradley - 1822 - 504 էջ
...jnpijaJity, all human diligence and industry can never,, [produce one gracious habit or act; " Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think any thing as of ourselves," 2 Cor. iii. 5. Nay, we speak not becoming the incomparable worth of grace, when we say that it is the... | |
 | Thomas Chalmers - 1822 - 386 էջ
...Corinthians, has expressed himself to the same effect as in the text, in the following words : " Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think any thing as of ourselves ; hut our sufficiency is of God ; who also hath made us ahle ministers of the New Testament ; not of... | |
 | Aaron Bancroft - 1822 - 468 էջ
...righteousness in men themselves. From these passages and others which bear a language like our text — " Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think any thing, as of ourselves — our sufficiency is of God." — " It is God who worketh in you to wilt and to do of his good pleasure."... | |
 | David Brainerd - 1822 - 616 էջ
...for which I have sufficient natural faculties, unless God should smile upon my attempt. " Not thai we are sufficient of ourselves, to think any thing, as of ourselves," I saw was a sacred truth Oct. 26. "In the morning, my soul was melted with a sense of divine goodness... | |
 | J.R. Broome - 1993 - 56 էջ
...the Apostle Paul. "Who is sufficient for these things?" (2 Cor. 2.16). Then he goes on to add. "Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think any thing as of ourselves; but our sufficiency is of God; Who also hath made us able ministers of the new testament; not of the letter, but of the spirit:... | |
 | Charles Hodge - 1994 - 324 էջ
...inspection. Paul says ho had a confidence before God ; that is, one which could endure in his sight. o 5. Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think any thing as of ourselves ; but our sufficiency (is) of God. The apostle had strongly asserted his sufficiency or fitness for his work. He here tells us... | |
 | Cheryl Jeanne Sanders - 1995 - 192 էջ
...in the slave states, and in England, quotes 2 Cor. 3:5 on the title page of her autobiography: "Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think any thing as of ourselves; but our sufficiency is of God." The title of Julia Foote's autobiography is taken from Zech. 3:2: "Is not this a brand plucked... | |
 | Joseph Johannes Sicco Weitenberg - 1995 - 194 էջ
...of the grace God has granted him through the Spirit. He disclaims all glory for himself: OS) 5 Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think any thing as of ourselves; but our sufficiency is of God; 6 Who also ha th made us able ministers of the new testament; He continues to make his position... | |
 | 1999 - 462 էջ
...ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; not in tables of stone, but in fleshy tables of the heart. And such trust have we through Christ to God-ward:...any thing as of ourselves; but our sufficiency is of God; who also hath made us able ministers of the new testament; not of the letter, but of the spirit:... | |
 | Marshall Brown - 1999 - 292 էջ
..."that we see all things in God," meant that we see only in the light provided by God; for example, "Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think any thing as of ourselves; but our sufficiency is of God" (2 Cor. 3.5); or "That which may be known of God is manifest in them [the Gentiles]; for God... | |
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Godward: not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think any thing as of ourselves; but our sufficiency is of God ; who also hath made us able ministers of the new testament; not of the letter, but of the spirit: for the letter killeth, but the spirit... 
