2 Corinthians 3:5-6

3:5 Not that we are adequate ¹  in ourselves to consider anything as if it were coming from ourselves, but our adequacy ²  is from God, 3:6 who made us adequate ³  to be servants of a new covenant ⁴  not based on the letter but on the Spirit, for the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.

2 Corinthians 12:11

The Signs of an Apostle

12:11 I have become a fool. You yourselves forced me to do it, for I should have been commended by you. For I lack nothing in comparison ⁵  to those “super-apostles,” even though I am nothing.

2 Corinthians 12:1

Paul’s Thorn in the Flesh

12:1 It is necessary to go on boasting. ⁶  Though it is not profitable, I will go on to visions and revelations from the Lord.

Colossians 1:10

1:10 so that you may live ⁷  worthily of the Lord and please him in all respects ⁸  – bearing fruit in every good deed, growing in the knowledge of God,

¹ tn Or “competent.”

² tn Or “competence.”

³ tn Or “competent.”

⁴ sn This new covenant is promised in Jer 31:31-34; 32:40.

⁵ tn Or “I am in no way inferior.”

⁶ tn Grk “Boasting is necessary.”

⁷ tn The infinitive περιπατῆσαι (peripathsai, “to walk, to live, to live one’s life”) is best taken as an infinitive of purpose related to “praying” (προσευχόμενοι, proseucomenoi) and “asking” (αἰτούμενοι, aitoumenoi) in v. 9 and is thus translated as “that you may live.”

⁸ tn BDAG 129 s.v. ἀρεσκεία states that ἀρεσκείαν (areskeian) refers to a “desire to please εἰς πᾶσαν ἀ. to please (the Lord) in all respects Col 1:10.”