13:1 This [is] the third [time] I am coming to you: By the mouth
of two or three witnesses shall every word be established.
13:2 I told you before, and foretell you, as if I were present,
the second time; and being absent now I write to them who
heretofore have sinned, and to all others, that, if I come
again, I will not spare;
13:3 Since ye seek a proof of Christ speaking in me, who toward
you is not weak, but is mighty in you.
13:4 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 towards you.
13:5 Examine yourselves, whether ye are in the faith; prove your
own selves. Know ye not your own selves, that Jesus Christ is
in you, except ye are reprobates?
13:6 But I trust that ye will know that we are not reprobates.
13:7 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 should be as reprobates.
13:8 For we can do nothing against the truth, but for the truth.
13:9 For we are glad, when we are weak, and ye are strong: and
this also we wish, [even] your perfection.
13:10 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.
13:11 Finally, brethren, farewell. Be perfect, be of good
comfort, be of one mind, live in peace; and the God of love and
peace will be with you.
13:12 Greet one another with a holy kiss.
13:13 All the saints salute you.
13:14 The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God,
and the communion of the Holy Spirit, [be] with you all. Amen.
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