“1 This [is] the third [time] I am coming to you. In the mouth of two
or three witnesses shall every word be established. 2 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: 3 Since ye seek a proof
of Christ speaking in me, which to you-ward is not weak, but is mighty
in you. 4 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 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? 6 But I trust that
ye shall know that we are not reprobates.”
“7 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. 8 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 wish, [even] your perfection. 10 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, 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 Greet one another with an holy kiss. 13 All the saints salute
you. 14 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.]>>” (2 Corinthians 13:1-14 AV)
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