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Examine Yourselves
This is the third time I am coming to you. In the mouth of two or three witnesses shall every word be established.
This is the third time I am coming to you. In the mouth of two or three witnesses shall every word be established.
I have already warned those who had been sinning when I was there on my second visit. Now I again warn them and all others, just as I did before, that next time I will not spare them.
I told you before, and foretell you, as if I were present, the second time; and being absent now I write to them which heretofore have sinned, and to all other, that, if I come again, I will not spare:
I will give you all the proof you want that Christ speaks through me. Christ is not weak when he deals with you; he is powerful among you.
Since ye seek a proof of Christ speaking in me, which to you-ward is not weak, but is mighty in you.
Although he was crucified in weakness, he now lives by the power of God. We, too, are weak, just as Christ was, but when we deal with you we will be alive with him and will have God’s power.
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.
Examine yourselves, whether ye be in the faith; prove your own selves. Know ye not your own selves, how that Jesus Christ is in you, except ye be reprobates?
As you test yourselves, I hope you will recognize that we have not failed the test of apostolic authority.
But I trust that ye shall know that we are not reprobates.
We pray to God that you will not do what is wrong by refusing our correction. I hope we won’t need to demonstrate our authority when we arrive. Do the right thing before we come — even if that makes it look like we have failed to demonstrate our authority.
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 be as reprobates.
For we cannot oppose the truth, but must always stand for the truth.
For we can do nothing against the truth, but for the truth.
We are glad to seem weak if it helps show that you are actually strong. We pray that you will become mature.
For we are glad, when we are weak, and ye are strong: and this also we wish, even your perfection.
I am writing this to you before I come, hoping that I won’t need to deal severely with you when I do come. For I want to use the authority the Lord has given me to strengthen you, not to tear you 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.
Final Greetings and Blessing
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.
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.
The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the communion of the Holy Ghost, be with you all. Amen.
{ The second epistle to the Corinthians was written from Philippi, a city of Macedonia, by Titus and Lucas. }
{ The second epistle to the Corinthians was written from Philippi, a city of Macedonia, by Titus and Lucas. }