2 Corinthians 13 · Clearspring

Examine Yourselves

¹This third time I am coming to you. In the mouth of two or three witnesses shall every matter be established.+ ²I have declared beforehand, and I say beforehand as present the second time, and now absent, to those that have sinned before, and to all the rest, that if I come again I will not spare.+ ³Since ye seek a proof of Christ speaking in me, (who is not weak towards you, but is powerful among you,+ ⁴for if indeed he has been crucified in weakness, yet he lives byGod's power; for indeed we are weak in him, but we shall live with him byGod's power towards you,)+ ⁵examine your own selves if ye be in the faith; prove your own selves: do ye not recognise yourselves, that Jesus Christ is in you, unless indeed ye be reprobates?+ ⁶Now I hope that ye will know that we are not reprobates.+ ⁷But we pray toGod that ye may do nothing evil; not that we may appear approved, but that ye may do what is right, and we be as reprobates.+ ⁸For we can do nothing against the truth, but for the truth.+ ⁹For we rejoice when we may be weak and ye may be powerful. But this also we pray for, your perfecting.+ ¹⁰On this account I write these things being absent, that being present I may not use severity according to the authority which the Lord has given me for building up, and not for overthrowing.+

Benediction and Farewell

¹¹For the rest, brethren, rejoice; be perfected; be encouraged; be of one mind; be at peace; and theGod of love and peace shall be with you.+ ¹²Salute one another with a holy kiss.+ ¹³All the saints salute you.+ ¹⁴The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love ofGod, and the communion of the Holy Spirit, [be] with you all.+

Examine Yourselves

Benediction and Farewell

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