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| [1]This is the third time I am coming to you. In the mouth of two or three witnesses shall every word be established. |
[1]This is the third time that I come unto you. In the mouth of two or three witnesses shall every word stand |
| [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 have sinned, and to all other, that, if I come again, I will not spare: |
[2]I told you before, and tell you before: as though I had been present the second time, so write I now being absent to them which heretofore have sinned, and to all others, that if I come again, I will not spare, |
| [3]Since ye seek a proof of Christ speaking in me, which to you-ward is not weak, but is mighty in you. |
[3]Seeing that ye seek experience of Christ, that speaketh in me, which toward you is not weak, but is mighty in you. |
| [4]For though he was crucified through weakness, yet he liveth by the power of God. For we also are weak in him, but we shall live with him by the power of God toward you. |
[4]For though he was crucified concerning his infirmity, yet liveth he through the power of God. And we no doubt are weak in him: but we shall live with him, through the power of God toward you. |
| [5]Examine yourselves, whether ye be in the faith; prove your own selves. Know ye not your own selves, how that Jesus Christ is in you, except ye be reprobates? |
[5]Prove yourselves whether ye are in the faith: examine yourselves: know ye not your own selves, how that Jesus Christ is in you, except ye be reprobates? |
| [6]But I trust that ye shall know that we are not reprobates. |
[6]But I trust that ye shall know that we are not reprobates. |
| [7]Now I pray to God that ye do no evil; not that we should appear approved, but that ye should do that which is honest, though we be as reprobates. |
[7]Now I pray unto God that ye do none evil, not that we should seem approved, but that ye should do that which is honest: though we be as reprobates. |
| [8]For we can do nothing against the truth, but for the truth. |
[8]For we cannot do any thing against the truth, but for the truth. |
| [9]For we are glad, when we are weak, and ye are strong: and this also we wish, even your perfection. |
[9]For we are glad when we are weak, and that ye are strong: this also we wish for even your perfection. |
| [10]Therefore I write these things being absent, lest being present I should use sharpness, according to the power which the Lord hath given me to edification, and not to destruction. |
[10]Therefore write I these things being absent, lest when I am present, I should use sharpness, according to the power which the Lord hath given me, to edification, and not to destruction. |
| [11]Finally, brethren, farewell. Be perfect, be of good comfort, be of one mind, live in peace; and the God of love and peace shall be with you. |
[11]Finally brethren, fare ye well: be perfect: be of good comfort: be of one mind: live in peace, and the God of love and peace shall be with you. |
| [12]Greet one another with an holy kiss. |
[12]Greet one another with an holy kiss. All the Saints salute you. |
| [13]All the saints salute you. |
[13]The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the communion of the Holy Ghost be with you all, Amen. ¶ The second Epistle to the Corinthians, written from Philippi, a city in Macedonia, and sent by Titus and Lucas. |
| [14]The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the communion of the Holy Ghost, be with you all. Amen. |
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