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2 Corinthians 13 (AMP)

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¹ THIS IS the third time that I am coming to you. By the testimony of two or three witnesses must any charge and every accusing statement be sustained and confirmed. ² I have already warned those who sinned formerly and all the rest also, and I warn them now again while I am absent, as I did when present on my second visit, that if I come back, I will not spare , ³ Since you desire and seek proof of the Christ Who speaks in and through me. is not weak and feeble in dealing with you, but is a mighty power within you; ⁴ For though He was crucified in weakness, yet He goes on living by the power of God. And though we too are weak in Him , yet in dealing with you alive and strong in Him by the power of God. ⁵ Examine and test and evaluate your own selves to see whether you are holding to your faith and showing the proper fruits of it. Test and prove yourselves . Do you not yourselves realize and know that Jesus Christ is in you--unless you are disapproved on trial and rejected? ⁶ But I hope you will recognize and know that we are not disapproved on trial and rejected. ⁷ But I pray to God that you may do nothing wrong, not in order that we may appear to be approved, but that you may continue doing right, we may seem to have failed and be unapproved. ⁸ For we can do nothing against the Truth , but only for the Truth . ⁹ For we are glad when we are weak (unapproved) and you are really strong. And this we also pray for: your all-round strengthening and perfecting of soul. ¹⁰ So I write these things while I am absent from you, that when I come to you, I may not have to deal sharply in my use of the authority which the Lord has given me for building up and not for tearing down. ¹¹ Finally, brethren, farewell (rejoice)! Be strengthened (perfected, completed, made what you ought to be); be encouraged and consoled and comforted; be of the same mind one with another; live in peace, and the God of love and the Author and Promoter of peace will be with you. ¹² Greet one another with a consecrated kiss. ¹³ All the saints (the people of God here) salute you. ¹⁴ The grace (favor and spiritual blessing) of the Lord Jesus Christ and the love of God and the presence and fellowship (the communion and sharing together, and participation) in the Holy Spirit be with you all. Amen (so be it).