1 This is the third time I am comming to you: in the mouth of two or three witnesses shal euery word be established.
2 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 haue sinned, and to all other, that if I come againe I will not spare:
3 Since ye seeke a proofe of Christ, speaking in me, which to you-ward is not weake, but is mightie in you.
4 For though hee was crucified through weaknesse, yet he liueth by the power of God: for wee also are weake in him, but wee shall liue with him by the power of God toward you.
5 Examine your selues, whether ye be in the faith: proue your owne selues. Know yee not your owne selues, how that Iesus Christ is in you, except ye be reprobates?
6 But I trust that yee shall knowe that we are not reprobates.
7 Now I pray to God, that ye doe no euill, not that we should appeare approued, but that ye should doe þt which is honest, though we be as reprobates.
8 For wee can doe nothing against the trueth, but for the trueth.
9 For wee are glad when wee are weake, and ye are strong: and this also we wish, euen your perfection.
10 Therefore I write these things being absent, lest being present I should vse sharpnesse, according to the power which the Lord hath giuen me to edification, and not to destruction.
2 Cor 13:1-10
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