‘I am not able to,’ Joseph answered Pharaoh. ‘It is God who will give Pharaoh a favourable answer.’ ,
2 Corinthians 3:5 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised It is not that we are competent in ourselves to claim anything as coming from ourselves, but our adequacy is from God. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think any thing as of ourselves; but our sufficiency is of God; Amplified Bible - Classic Edition 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. American Standard Version (1901) not that we are sufficient of ourselves, to account anything as from ourselves; but our sufficiency is from God; Common English Bible It isn’t that we ourselves are qualified to claim that anything came from us. No, our qualification is from God. Catholic Public Domain Version It is not that we are adequate to think anything of ourselves, as if anything was from us. But our adequacy is from God. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Not that we are sufficient to think any thing of ourselves, as of ourselves: but our sufficiency is from God. |
‘I am not able to,’ Joseph answered Pharaoh. ‘It is God who will give Pharaoh a favourable answer.’ ,
Also, the power of God was at work in Judah to unite them to carry out the command of the king and his officials by the word of the Lord.
for I will give you such words and a wisdom that none of your adversaries will be able to resist or contradict.
And look, I am sending you what my Father promised. As for you, stay in the city until you are empowered , from on high.’
I am the vine; you are the branches. The one who remains in me and I in him produces much fruit, because you can do nothing without me.
For I would not dare say anything except what Christ has accomplished through me by word and deed for the obedience of the Gentiles,
But by the grace of God I am what I am, and his grace towards me was not in vain. On the contrary, I worked harder than any of them, yet not I, but the grace of God that was with me.
According to God’s grace that was given to me, I have laid a foundation as a skilled master builder, and another builds on it. But each one is to be careful how he builds on it.
But he said to me, ‘My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is perfected in weakness.’ Therefore, I will most gladly boast all the more about my weaknesses, so that Christ’s power may reside in me.
To some we are an aroma of death leading to death, but to others, an aroma of life leading to life. Who is adequate for these things?
Now we have this treasure in clay jars, so that this extraordinary power may be from God and not from us.
For it is God who is working in you both to will and to work according to his good purpose.
What you have heard from me in the presence of many witnesses, commit to faithful men who will be able to teach others also.
Every good and perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, who does not change like shifting shadows.