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.
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.