2 Corinthians 3:5 — Compare All Translations

English (YLT) 1898 Young's Literal Translation by Robert Young

not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think anything, as of ourselves, but our sufficiency [is] of God,

English ASV

not that we are sufficient of ourselves, to account anything as from ourselves; but our sufficiency is from God;

English Amplified

Not that we are fit (qualified and sufficient in ability) of ourselves to form personal judgments or to claim or count anything as coming from us, but our power and ability and sufficiency are from God.

English Amplified Classic Bible 1987

Not that we are fit (qualified and sufficient in ability) of ourselves to form personal judgments or to claim or count anything as coming from us, but our power and ability and sufficiency are from God.

English Berean Standard Bible (BSB) 2025

Not that we are competent in ourselves to claim that anything comes from us, but our competence comes from God.

English CSB 2017 - Christian Standard Bible

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

English Darby 1890 : Public Domain

not that we are competent of ourselves to think anything as of ourselves, but our competency [is] of God;

English EASY 2024

We know that we cannot do this work by ourselves. We never think that. But God makes us able to do it.

English ERV 2006 - Only For Website

I don't mean that we are able to do anything good ourselves. It is God who makes us able to do all that we do.

Not that we are sufficient in ourselves to claim anything as coming from us, but our sufficiency is from God,

English GNT (Good News Translation)

There is nothing in us that allows us to claim that we are capable of doing this work. The capacity we have comes from God;

English God's Word - GW 1995

By ourselves we are not qualified in any way to claim that we can do anything. Rather, God makes us qualified.

English HCSB 2004 - Copyrighted Only For Website

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

English KJV 1611

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

English LSB

Not that we are sufficient in ourselves to consider anything as coming from ourselves, but our sufficiency is from God,

English MEV 2014 (Modern English Version)

not that we are sufficient in ourselves to take credit for anything of ourselves, but our sufficiency is from God,

English NASB (New American Standard Bible - NASB 1995)

Not that we are adequate in ourselves to consider anything as coming from ourselves, but our adequacy is from God,

English NASU 1989 - New American Standard Update - Only for Website

Not that of ourselves we are qualified to take credit for anything as coming from us; rather, our qualification comes from God,

English NET Bible - 2005 (New English Translation)

Not that we are adequate in ourselves to consider anything as if it were coming from ourselves, but our adequacy is from God,

English NIRV 1996 - Copyrighted only for Website

In ourselves we are not able to claim anything for ourselves. The power to do what we do comes from God.

English NIV

Not that we are competent in ourselves to claim anything for ourselves, but our competence comes from God.

English NKJ 1982

Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think of anything as being from ourselves, but our sufficiency is from God,

English NLT

It is not that we think we can do anything of lasting value by ourselves. Our only power and success come from God.

English NRSV 1989 - Only for website

Not that we are competent of ourselves to claim anything as coming from us; our competence is from God,

English Passion Translation Bible 2020

Yet we don’t see ourselves as capable enough to do anything in our own strength, for our true competence flows from God’s empowering presence.

English RSV (Revised Standard Version)

Not that we are competent of ourselves to claim anything as coming from us; our competence is from God,

English TL (The Living Bible) (1971)

and not because we think we can do anything of lasting value by ourselves. Our only power and success comes from God.

English Tyndale 1537

not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think any thing as it were of ourselves: but our ableness cometh of God,

2 Corinthians 3:5 — Compare Translations