II CORINTHIANS CHAPTER XIII.

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 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: 
3 Since ye seek a proof of Christ speaking in me, 
which to you-ward 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. 
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? 
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. 
8 For we can do nothing 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. 
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. 
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 an holy kiss. 
13 All the saints salute you.
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. 

[The second epistle to the Corinthians was written from Philippi, a city of Macedonia, by Titus and Lucas.]