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Notοὐχthatὅτιwe areἐσμενsufficientἱκανοίofἀφ’ourselvesἑαυτῶνto considerλογίσασθαίanythingτιasὡςcomingfromἐξourselves,αὑτῶνbutἀλλ’our sufficiencyἡ ἱκανότης ἡμῶνisfromἐκGod,τοῦ θεοῦ
2 Corinthians 3:5
Study it in the app“Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to consider anything as coming from ourselves, but our sufficiency is from God,”
With the Greek beneath
2 Corinthians 3:5, word by word
- we areἐσμενesmen
be
To be: says who or what something is.
Where else “esmen” appears- sufficientἱκανοίhikanoi
worthy
Qualified or deserving: "I do not deserve".
Where else “hikanoi” appears- to considerλογίσασθαίlogisasthai
consider
To think that something is so.
Where else “logisasthai” appears- our sufficiencyἱκανότηςhikanotēs
sufficiency
Sufficiency, ability for something.
Where else “hikanotēs” appears- Godθεοῦtheou
God
The Creator and Lord of all, the one God of Israel.
Where else “theou” appears
The context
4Such is the confidence that we have through the Messiah toward God.
5 · This verse (above)
6who also made us sufficient to be servants of a new covenant, not of letter but of Spirit; for the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.