| 2Co 13:1 | He threatens severity, and the power of his apostleship, against obstinate sinners. |
2Co 13:1
•COURTS | ¶ This is the third1 time I am coming to you. In2 the mouth of two or three witnesses shall every word be established. |
2Co 13:2
•CHURCH, THE | I told3 you before, and foretell you, as if I were present, the second time; and being4 absent now I write to them which heretofore5 have sinned, and to all other, that, if I come again, I will not spare: |
| 2Co 13:3 | Since ye seek6 a proof of Christ7 speaking in me, which8 to you-ward is not weak, but is mighty in you. |
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•WEAKNESS-POWER | For though he was9 crucified through weakness, yet10 he liveth by the power of God. For we also11 are weak in him12, but13 we shall live with him by the power of God toward you. |
| 2Co 13:5 | And, advising them to a trial of their faith, |
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•SELF-EXAMINATION, PROFITABLE
•TITLES AND NAMES | Examine14 yourselves, whether ye be in the faith15; prove your own selves. Know16 ye not your own selves, how that Jesus Christ17 is in you, except ye be reprobates18? |
| 2Co 13:6 | 19But I trust that ye shall know that we are not reprobates. |
| 2Co 13:7 | and to a reformation of their sins before his coming, |
| 2Co 13:7 | ¶ Now I pray20 to God that ye do no evil; not that we should appear approved21, but that ye should do that which is honest22, though we be as reprobates23. |
| 2Co 13:8 | 24For we can do nothing against the truth, but for the truth. |
| 2Co 13:9 | For we are glad, when25 we are weak, and ye are strong: and this also we wish, even26 your perfection. |
| 2Co 13:10 | ¶ Therefore I write27 these things being absent, lest28 being present I should use sharpness, according29 to the power which the Lord hath given me to edification, and not to destruction. |
| 2Co 13:11 | he concludes his epistle with a general exhortation and a prayer. |
2Co 13:11
•FAREWELLS
•PERFECTION-IMPERFECTION
•REST-UNREST
•REST-UNREST
•UNITY-STRIFE | ¶ Finally, brethren, farewell30. Be perfect31, be of good32 comfort, be of one33 mind, live34 in peace; and the God35 of love and peace shall be with36 you. |
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•KISS | 37Greet one another with an holy kiss. |
| 2Co 13:13 | 38All the saints salute you. |
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•BENEDICTIONS
•TRINITY, THE HOLY | The grace39 of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love41 of God, and the communion42 of the Holy Ghost, be with you all. Amen43. The second epistle to the Corinthians was written from Philippi, a city of Macedonia, by Titus and Lucas.] |
