OrthJBC - II Corinthians - 13

13:1  This is the pa'am hashlishit I am coming to you; [II Cor 12:14] by the PI SHNAYIM SHLOSHAH EDIM (`by the mouth of two or three witnesses,`DEVARIM 19:15) every dvar shall be established.

13:2  I warned those who committed averos before and all the rest, and now absent I warn them again, as I did when I made pakod (visit) the pa'am hasheinit, that if I come again, I will not spare, I will not be lenient,

13:3  als (since) you seek to test if Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach is speaking in me. Moshiach is not weak toward you, but is GIBBOR in you [Yeshayah 9:5].

13:4  For indeed he was pierced on the Aitz out of weakness, [Phil. 2:7-8] but Moshiach lives by the gevurat Hashem. Likewise, we are weak in him, yet by the gevurat Hashem we will live with him to serve you.

13:5  Perform a bedikah (examination) on yourselves to see if you are in the [Orthodox Jewish] emunah (faith). Test and prove yourselves [I Cor 11:28]. Or do you yourselves not have da'as that Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach is in you? Unless you are reprobate and unapproved. [Ekhah 3:40]

13:6  But I have tikvah that you will have da'as that we are not unapproved.

13:7  Now we daven (pray) to Hashem that you do not do any rah, not that we Shluchim may appear to have stood the test, but that you may do HaTov, though we may seem to have failed.

13:8  For we are not able to do anything against HaEmes, but only for HaEmes. [I Cor 13:6]

13:9  For we have lev same'ach when we are megareia (weakened) and you are strong, for this also we daven (pray), that is, for your shelemut, your tikkun.

13:10  Therefore, while I am absent I write this iggeret so that when I am present I may not treat you with severity, according to the samchut (authority) which Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach Adoneinu gave me for your upbuilding and not for your churban. [II Cor 2:3; 10:8,11] FINAL "SHALOM" GREETINGS

13:11  For the rest, Achim b'Moshiach, rejoice with simcha. [Phil. 4:4] Come to order and chazzak (be strong)! Have achdut in your machshavot. Live in shalom. And the G-d of ahavah and shalom will be with you. [Rom 15:33]

13:12  Greet one another with a neshikah kedosha.

13:13  All the kedoshim say, "Shalom!" BIRKAT HAPRIDAH (PARTING BLESSING)

13:14  The Chen v'Chesed Adoneinu Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach and the ahavat Hashem and the hitkhabrut HaRuach Hakodesh be with you all. [Rom 16:16; I Cor 16:20; I Pet 5:14]