13:1 This third time I am coming to you. In the mouth of two or three witnesses shall every matter be established.
13:2 I have declared beforehand, and I say beforehand as present the second time, and now absent, to those that have sinned before, 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 towards you, but is powerful among you,
13:4 for if indeed he has been crucified in weakness, yet he lives by God's power; for indeed *we* are weak in him, but we shall live with him by God's power towards you,)
13:5 examine your own selves if ye be in the faith; prove your own selves: do ye not recognise yourselves, that JesusChrist is in you, unless indeed ye be reprobates?
13:6 Now I hope that ye will know that *we* are not reprobates.
13:7 But we pray to God that ye may do nothing evil; not that *we* may appear approved, but that *ye* may do what is right, and *we* be as reprobates.
13:8 For we can do nothing against the truth, but for the truth.
13:9 For we rejoice when *we* may be weak and *ye* may be powerful. But this also we pray for, your perfecting.
13:10 On this account I write these things being absent, that being present I may not use severity according to the authority which the Lord has given me for building up, and not for overthrowing.
