This is
the third time I am coming to you. In the mouth
of two or three witnesses shall every word be
established.
02 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:
03 Since ye seek a proof of Christ speaking in
me, which to you-ward is not weak, but is mighty
in you.
04 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.
05 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?
06 But I trust that ye shall know that we are not
reprobates.
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07 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.
08 For we can do nothing against the truth, but
for the truth.
09 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.
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