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2 Corinthians 13:5 — Meaning and Application
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King James Version
" 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? "
2 Corinthians 13:5
Verse in Context
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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.
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.
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?
But I trust that ye shall know that we are not reprobates.
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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2 Corinthians 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 Corinthians 13:2
"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 Corinthians 13:3
"Since ye seek a proof of Christ speaking in me, which to you-ward is ➔ not weak, but is mighty in you."
2 Corinthians 13:4
"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."
2 Corinthians 13:6
"But I trust that ye shall know that we are not reprobates."
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