1890 Darby's Translation of the Holy Scriptures (DBY)
2 Corinthians 13
1 He threateneth severity, and the power of his apostleship against obstinate sinners. 5 And advising them to a trial of their faith, 7 and to a reformation of their sins before his coming, 11 he concludeth his epistle with a general exhortation and a prayer.
13:1 ¶
This third time I am coming to you. In the mouth of two or three witnesses shall every matter be established.
13:2
I have declared beforehand, and I say beforehand as present the second time, and now absent, to those that have sinned before, and to all the rest, that if I come again I will not spare.
13:3
Since ye seek a proof of Christ speaking in me, (who is not weak towards you, but is powerful among you,
13:4
for if indeed he has been crucified in weakness, yet he lives by God's power; for indeed *we* are weak in him, but we shall live with him by God's power towards you,)
13:5
examine your own selves if ye be in the faith; prove your own selves: do ye not recognise yourselves, that Jesus Christ is in you, unless indeed ye be reprobates?
13:6
Now I hope that ye will know that *we* are not reprobates.
13:7
But we pray to God that ye may do nothing evil; not that *we* may appear approved, but that *ye* may do what is right, and *we* be as reprobates.
13:8
For we can do nothing against the truth, but for the truth.
13:9
For we rejoice when *we* may be weak and *ye* may be powerful. But this also we pray for, your perfecting.
13:10
On this account I write these things being absent, that being present I may not use severity according to the authority which the Lord has given me for building up, and not for overthrowing.
13:11
For the rest, brethren, rejoice; be perfected; be encouraged; be of one mind; be at peace; and the God of love and peace shall be with you.
13:12
Salute 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.
