Worsley - II Corinthians - 13

13:1  This, I say, is the third time I am coming to you: and at the mouth of two or three witnesses shall every word be established.

13:2  I said before, and I again tell you beforehand, as if I were present the second time; and being absent I now write to those who have sinned heretofore, 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 toward you, but is powerful among you.

13:4  For if He was crucified as from weakness, yet He now liveth by the power of God: for we also are weak in Him, but shall live with Him by the power of God manifested to you.

13:5  Examine yourselves, whether ye be in the faith; prove yourselves: do ye not know yourselves to be such that Jesus Christ is in you? unless ye are reprovable.

13:6  But I hope ye will soon know that we are not disapproved.

13:7  I pray to God that ye may do no evil: and not that we may appear to be approved by your punishment, but that ye may do that which is good, though we should seem to be disapproved.

13:8  For we can do nothing against the truth, but for the truth.

13:9  For we rejoice when we exert not our power, and when ye are strong: as this is what we wish, even your perfection.

13:10  Therefore I write these things while absent, that when present I may not use severity, according to the power which the Lord hath given me for edification, and not for destruction.

13:11  Finally, my brethren, farewel: be reformed, be exhorted, be of one mind, live in peace: and the God of love and peace will be with you.

13:12  Salute one another with an holy kiss.

13:13  All the saints salute you. May the favor of the Lord Jesus Christ,

13:14  and the love of God, and the communication of the Holy Spirit be with you all. Amen.