Paul’s Competence

Such is the confidence we have through Christ before God. It is not that we are competent in[a] ourselves to claim anything as coming from ourselves, but our adequacy is from God.(A) He has made us competent to be ministers of a new covenant,(B) not of the letter,(C) but of the Spirit. For the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.

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Footnotes

  1. 3:5 Lit from

Such is the (A)confidence we have toward God through Christ. Not that we are adequate in ourselves so as to consider anything as having come from ourselves, but (B)our adequacy is from God, who also made us adequate as (C)servants of a (D)new covenant, not of (E)the letter but of the Spirit; for the letter kills, but (F)the Spirit gives life.

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