< 2 Corinthians 13 >

1 This third time I am coming to you. In the mouth of two witnesses or three every saying will be confirmed.
This is the third time I am coming to you. By the mouth of two or three witnesses shall every word be established.
2 I have told you before, and I say in advance, as present the second time, and now absent, I write to those who have previously sinned, and to all the others, that if I come to it again, I will not spare,
I told you before, and foretell, as if I were present, the second time; and being absent now I write to them who have sinned before, and to all others, that, if I come again, I will not spare:
3 since ye seek proof of the Christ speaking in me, who is not weak toward you, but is mighty in you.
Since ye seek a proof of Christ speaking in me, who toward you is not weak, but is mighty in you.
4 For even if he was crucified from weakness, yet he lives from the power of God. For we in him are also weak, but we will live with him from the power of God toward you.
For though he was crucified through weakness, yet he liveth by the power of God. For we also are weak in him, but we shall live with him by the power of God toward you.
5 Examine yourselves whether ye are in the faith. Test yourselves. Or know ye not yourselves, that Jesus Christ is in you? Unless ye are test-failing something.
Examine yourselves, whether ye are in the faith; test your own selves. Know ye not your own selves, that Jesus Christ is in you, except ye are disqualified?
6 But I hope that ye will know that we are not test-failing.
But I trust that ye shall know that we are not disqualified.
7 Now I pray to God, to do you nothing harmful, not that we would appear test-passing, but that ye would do right, even like we might be test-failing.
Now I pray to God that ye do no evil; not that we should appear approved, but that ye should do that which is honest, though we may seem disqualified.
8 For we do not have any power against the truth, but for the truth.
For we can do nothing against the truth, but for the truth.
9 For we are glad when we are weak and ye are strong. And this also we pray for, your full qualification.
For we are glad, when we are weak, and ye are strong: and this also we wish, even your perfection.
10 Because of this I write these things while absent, so that I may not act harshly when present, according to the authority that the Lord gave me for building up and not for tearing down.
Therefore I write these things being absent, lest being present I should use sharpness, according to the power which the Lord hath given me to edification, and not to destruction.
11 Finally brothers, farewell. Be thoroughly prepared, be encouraged, think the same way, live in peace, and the God of love and peace will be with you.
Finally, brethren, farewell. Be perfect, be of good comfort, be of one mind, live in peace; and the God of love and peace shall be with you.
12 Salute each other by a holy kiss.
Greet one another with an holy kiss.
13 All the sanctified salute you.
All the saints greet you.
14 The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit, is with all of you. Truly.
The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the communion of the Holy Spirit, be with you all. Amen. The second epistle to the Corinthians was written from Philippi, ''a city'' of Macedonia, by Titus and Luke.

< 2 Corinthians 13 >