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Coming with Authority

This will be the third time I am coming to you. “By the mouth of two or three witnesses every word shall be established.”

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Examine Yourselves

This is the third time I am coming to you. In the mouth of two or three witnesses shall every word be established.

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I have told you before, and foretell as if I were present the second time, and now being absent [a]I write to those who have sinned before, and to all the rest, that if I come again I will not spare —

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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:

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since you seek a proof of Christ speaking in me, who is not weak toward you, but mighty in you.

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Since ye seek a proof of Christ speaking in me, which to you-ward is not weak, but is mighty in you.

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For though He was crucified in 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 toward you.

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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.

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Examine yourselves as to whether you are in the faith. Test yourselves. Do you not know yourselves, that Jesus Christ is in you? — unless indeed you [b]are disqualified.

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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?

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But I trust that you will know that we are not disqualified.

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But I trust that ye shall know that we are not reprobates.

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Paul Prefers Gentleness

Now [c]I pray to God that you do no evil, not that we should appear approved, but that you should do what is honorable, though we may seem disqualified.

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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.

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

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

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For we are glad when we are weak and you are strong. And this also we pray, that you may be made complete.

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For we are glad, when we are weak, and ye are strong: and this also we wish, even your perfection.

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Therefore I write these things being absent, lest being present I should use sharpness, according to the authority which the Lord has given me for edification and not for destruction.

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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.

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Greetings and Benediction

Finally, brethren, farewell. Become complete. Be of good comfort, be of one mind, live in peace; and the God of love and peace will be with you.

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Final Greetings and Blessing

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.

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Greet one another with a holy kiss.

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Greet one another with an holy kiss.

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All the saints greet you.

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All the saints salute you.

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The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the [d]communion of the Holy Spirit be with you all. Amen.

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The grace of the 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 was written from Philippi, a city of Macedonia, by Titus and Lucas. }

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