"Sufficiency"
¶And such trust have we through Christ to God-ward: not that we are sufficient {G2425} of ourselves to think any thing as of ourselves; but our sufficiency {G2426} is
of God; Who also hath made us able ministers of the new Testament; not
of the letter, but of the Spirit: for the letter killeth, but the Spirit
giveth Life.
II Corinthians 3:4-6
Strongs: G2426
2426 ἱκανότης [I(KANO/THS] \hik-an-ot'-ace\
from 2425; ability:--sufficiency.
II Corinthians 3:5 Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think any thing as of ourselves; but our sufficiency {G2426} is of God;
from 2425
Strongs: G242:
2425 ἱκανός [I(KANO/S] \hik-an-os'\
from ἵκω [I(/KW] (ἱκάνω [I(KA/NW] or ἱκνέομαι [I(KNE/OMAI], akin to 2240) (to arrive); competent (as if coming in season), i.e. ample (in amount) or fit (in character):--able, + content, enough, good, great, large, long (while), many, meet, much, security, sore, sufficient, worthy.
Matthew 3:11 I indeed baptize you with water unto repentance: but he that cometh after me is mightier than I, whose shoes I am not worthy {G2425} to bear: he shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost, and with fire:
Matthew 8:8 The centurion answered and said, Lord, I am not worthy {G2425} that thou shouldest come under my roof: but speak the word only, and my servant shall be healed.
Matthew 28:12 And when they were assembled with the elders, and had taken counsel, they gave large {G2425} money unto the soldiers,
Mark 1:6,7 And John was clothed with camel's hair, and with a girdle of a skin about his loins; and he did eat locusts and wild honey; and preached, saying, There cometh one mightier than I after me, the latchet of whose shoes I am not worthy {G2425} to stoop down and unloose.
Mark 10:46 ¶And they came to Jericho: and as he went out of Jericho with his disciples and a great {G2425} number of people, blind Bartimæus, the son of Timæus, sat by the highway side begging.
Mark 15:15 ¶And so Pilate, willing to content {G2425}the people, released Barabbas unto them, and delivered Jesus, when he had scourged him, to be crucified.
Luke 3:16 John answered, saying unto them all, I indeed baptize you with water; but one mightier than I cometh, the latchet of whose shoes I am not worthy{G2425} to unloose: he shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost and with fire:
Luke 7:6 Then Jesus went with them. And when he was now not far from the house, the centurion sent friends to him, saying unto him, Lord, trouble not thyself: for I am not worthy {G2425} that thou shouldest enter under my roof:
Luke 7:11,12 ¶And it came to pass the day after, that he went into a city called Nain; and many {G2425} of his disciples went with him, and much people. Now when he came nigh to the gate of the city, behold, there was a dead man carried out, the only son of his mother, and she was a widow: and much {G2425} people of the city was with her.
Luke 8:27 And when he went forth to land, there met him out of the city a certain man, which had devils long {G2425} time, and ware no clothes, neither abode in any house, but in the tombs.
Luke 8:32 And there was there an herd of many {G2425} swine feeding on the mountain: and they besought him that he would suffer them to enter into them. And he suffered them.
Luke 20:9 Then began he to speak to the people this parable; A certain man planted a vineyard, and let it forth to husbandmen, and went into a far country for a long {G2425} time.
Luke 22:38 And they said, Lord, behold, here are two swords. And he said unto them, It is enough {G2425}.
Luke 23:8,9 ¶And when Herod saw Jesus, he was exceeding glad: for he was desirous to see him of a long {G2425} season, because he had heard many things of him; and he hoped to have seen some miracle done by him. Then he questioned with him in many {G2425} words; but he answered him nothing.
Acts 5:37 After this man rose up Judas of Galilee in the days of the taxing, and drew away much {G2425} people after him: he also perished; and all, even as many as obeyed him, were dispersed.
Acts 8:11 And to him they had regard, because that of long {G2425} time he had bewitched them with sorceries.
Acts 9:23 ¶And after that many {G2425} days were fulfilled, the Jews took counsel to kill him:
Acts 9:43 And it came to pass, that he tarried many {G2425} days in Joppa with one Simon a tanner.
Acts 11:24 For he was a good man, and full of the Holy Ghost and of faith: and much {G2425} people was added unto the Lord.
Acts 11:26 And when he had found him, he brought him unto Antioch. And it came to pass, that a whole year they assembled themselves with the church, and taught much {G2425} people. And the disciples were called Christians first in Antioch.
Acts 12:12 And when he had considered the thing, he came to the house of Mary the mother of John, whose surname was Mark; where many {G2425} were gathered together praying.
Acts 14:3 Long {G2425} time therefore abode they speaking boldly in the Lord, which gave testimony unto the word of his grace, and granted signs and wonders to be done by their hands.
Acts 14:21 And when they had preached the gospel to that city, and had taught many {G2425}, they returned again to Lystra, and to Iconium, and Antioch,
Acts 17:9 And when they had taken security {G2425} of Jason, and of the other, they let them go.
Acts 18:18 ¶And Paul after this tarried there yet a good {G2425} while, and then took his leave of the brethren, and sailed thence into Syria, and with him Priscilla and Aquila; having shorn his head in Cenchrea: for he had a vow.
Acts 19:19 Many {G2425} of them also which used curious arts brought their books together, and burned them before all men: and they counted the price of them, and found it fifty thousand pieces of silver.
Acts 19:26 Moreover ye see and hear, that not alone at Ephesus, but almost throughout all Asia, this Paul hath persuaded and turned away much {G2425} people, saying that they be no gods, which are made with hands:
Acts 20:8 And there were many {G2425} lights in the upper chamber, where they were gathered together.
Acts 20:11 When he therefore was come up again, and had broken bread, and eaten, and talked a long while {G2425}, even till break of day, so he departed.
Acts 20:37 And they {G2425} all wept sore, and fell on Paul's neck, and kissed him,
Acts 22:6 And it came to pass, that, as I made my journey, and was come nigh unto Damascus about noon, suddenly there shone from heaven a great {G2425} light round about me.
Acts 27:7 And when we had sailed slowly many {G2425} days, and scarce were come over against Cnidus, the wind not suffering us, we sailed under Crete, over against Salmone;
Acts 27:9 ¶Now when much {G2425} time was spent, and when sailing was now dangerous, because the fast was now already past, Paul admonished them,
I Corinthians 11:30 For this cause many are weak and sickly among you, and many {G2425} sleep.
I Corinthians 15:9 For I am the least of the apostles, that am not meet {G2425} to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God.
II Corinthians 2:6 Sufficient {G2425} to such a man is this punishment, which was inflicted of many.
II Corinthians 2:16 To the one we are the savour of death unto death; and to the other the savour of life unto life. And who is sufficient {G2425} for these things?
II Corinthians 3:5 Not that we are sufficient {G2425} of ourselves to think any thing as of ourselves; but our sufficiency is of God;
II Timothy 2:2 And the things that thou hast heard of me among many witnesses, the same commit thou to faithful men, who shall be able to {G2425} teach others also.
AGAIN
¶And such trust have we through Christ to God-ward: not that we are sufficient {G2425} of ourselves to think any thing as of ourselves; but our sufficiency {G2426} is of God; Who also hath made us able ministers of the new Testament; not of the letter, but of the Spirit: for the letter killeth, but the Spirit giveth Life.
¶And such trust have we through Christ to God-ward: not that we are sufficient {G2425} of ourselves to think any thing as of ourselves; but our sufficiency {G2426} is of God; Who also hath made us able ministers of the new Testament; not of the letter, but of the Spirit: for the letter killeth, but the Spirit giveth Life.
II Corinthians 3:4-6
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II Corinthians 3
Do we begin again to commend ourselves? or need we, as some others, epistles of commendation to you, or letters of commendation from you? Ye are our epistle written in our hearts, known and read of all men: Forasmuch as ye are manifestly declared to be the epistle of Christ ministered by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; not in tables of stone, but in fleshy tables of the heart.
¶And such trust have we through Christ to God-ward: not that we are sufficient {G2425} of ourselves to think any thing as of ourselves; but our sufficiency {G2426} is of God; who also hath made us able ministers of the new Testament; not of the letter, but of the Spirit: for the letter killeth, but the Spirit giveth life. But if the ministration of death, written and engraven in stones, was glorious, so that the children of Israel could not stedfastly behold the face of Moses for the glory of his countenance; which glory was to be done away: how shall not the ministration of the Spirit be rather glorious? For if the ministration of condemnation be glory, much more doth the ministration of righteousness exceed in glory. For even that which was made glorious had no glory in this respect, by reason of the glory that excelleth. For if that which is done away was glorious, much more that which remaineth is glorious. Seeing then that we have such hope, we use great plainness of speech: and not as Moses, which put a vail over his face, that the children of Israel could not stedfastly look to the end of that which is abolished: but their minds were blinded: for until this day remaineth the same vail untaken away in the reading of the old Testament; which vail is done away in Christ. But even unto this day, when Moses is read, the vail is upon their heart. Nevertheless when it shall turn to the Lord, the vail shall be taken away. Now the Lord is that Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty. But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord.
AGAIN
¶And such trust have we through Christ to God-ward: not that we are sufficient {G2425} of ourselves to think any thing as of ourselves; but our sufficiency {G2426} is
of God; Who also hath made us able ministers of the new Testament; not
of the letter, but of the Spirit: for the letter killeth, but the Spirit
giveth Life.
II Corinthians 3:4-6
Compare
John 15:1-5 I am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman. Every branch in me that beareth not fruit he taketh away: and every branch that beareth fruit, he purgeth it, that it may bring forth more fruit. Now ye are clean through the word which I have spoken unto you. Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide in the vine; no more can ye, except ye abide in me. I am the vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing.
AGAIN
¶And such trust have we through Christ to God-ward: not that we are sufficient {G2425} of ourselves to think any thing as of ourselves; but our sufficiency {G2426} is of God; Who also hath made us able ministers of the new Testament; not of the letter, but of the Spirit: for the letter killeth, but the Spirit giveth Life.
I Corinthians 15:3,4 For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures; and that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures:
Romans 16:27 To God only wise, be glory through Jesus Christ for ever. Amen.
I Peter 5:11 To him be glory and dominion for ever and ever. Amen.
