2 Corinthians, Chapter 13

1. This is the third time I am coming to you. In the mouth of two or three witnesses shall every word be established.    2. I told you before, and tell you beforehand, as if I were present, the second time; and being absent now I write to those who previously have sinned, and to all others, that, if I come again, I will not spare:    3. Since you seek a proof of Christ speaking in me, who is not weak towards you, but is mighty in you.    4. For though he was crucified through weakness, yet he lives by the power of God. For we also are weak in him, but we shall live with him by the power of God exercised towards you.    5. Examine yourselves, whether you are in the faith; carefully consider your own selves. Do you not know your own selves, how Jesus Christ is in you, unless you are lost?    6. But I trust that you shall know that we are not lost.    7. Now I pray to God that you will do no evil; not that we should appear to be approved, but that you should do that which is honest, though we may seem to be lost.    8. For we can do nothing against the truth, but only for the truth.    9. For we are glad, when we are weak, and you are strong: and this also we desire, even your perfection.    10. Therefore I write these things being absent, so that being present I need not use severity, according to the authority which the Lord has given me for edification, and not for 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.    12. Greet one another with a holy kiss.    13. All the saints greet you.    14. The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the communion of the Holy Spirit, be with you all. Amen.