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Now we have such confidence in God through Christ. Not that we are adequate[a] in ourselves to consider anything as if it were coming from ourselves, but our adequacy[b] is from God, who made us adequate[c] to be servants of a new covenant[d] not based on the letter but on the Spirit, for the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Corinthians 3:5 tn Or “competent.”
  2. 2 Corinthians 3:5 tn Or “competence.”
  3. 2 Corinthians 3:6 tn Or “competent.”
  4. 2 Corinthians 3:6 sn This new covenant is promised in Jer 31:31-34; 32:40.