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2 Corinthians 13

1 He threateneth the obstinate, 5 And declareth what his power is by their own testimony. 10 Also he sheweth what is the effect of this epistle. 11 After having exhorted them to their duty, he wisheth them all prosperity.
1.This is the athird time that I come unto you. *In the mouth of two or three witnesses shall every word stand.
2.bI told you before, and tell you before: as though I had been present the second time, so write I now being absent to them which heretofore have sinned, and to all others, that if I come again, I will not spare,
3.Seeing that ye seek experience of Christ, that speaketh in me, which toward you is not weak, but is mighty in you.
4.For though he was crucified concerning his cinfirmity, yet liveth he through the power of God. And we no doubt are weak in him: dbut we shall live with him, through the power of God toward you.
5.*Prove your selves whether ye are in the faith: examine your 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 nor reprobates.
7.Now I pray unto God that ye do none evil, nor that we should seem approved, but that ye should do that which is honest: though we be as ereprobates.
8.For we can not do any thing against the truth, but for the truth.
9.For we are glad when we are weak, and that ye are fstrong: this also we wish for even your perfection.
10.Therefore write I these things being absent, lest when I am present, I should use sharpness, according to the power which the Lord hath given me, to gedification, and not to destruction.
11.Finally brethren, fare ye well: be perfect: be of good comfort: be of one mind: live in peace, and the God of love and peace shalbe with you.
12.Greet one another with an *holie hkiss. All the Saints salute you.
13.The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the communion of the holie Ghost be with you all, Amen.
The second epistle to the Corinthians, written from Philippi, a city in Macedonia, and sent by Titus and Lucas.

Notes

1-*.
Deut. 19.15, Mat. 18.16, John 8.17, Ebr. 10.28.
1-a.
His first coming was his dwelling among them: his second was his first epistle, and now he is ready to come the third time: which three comings he calls his three witnesses.
2-b.
In my first epistle, Chap. 4.20.
4-c.
In that he humbled himself and took upon him the form of a servant.
4-d.
Christ as touching the flesh in man's judgement was vile and abject: therefore we that are his members, can not be otherwise esteemed: but being crucified, he showed himself very God: so think, that we whom ye contemn as dead men and castaways, have through God such power to execute against you, that ye may feel sensibly that we live in Christ.
5-*.
1 Cor. 11.28.
7-e.
In man's judgement, who for the most part rejects the best, and approves the worst.
9-f.
Having abundance of the grace of God.
10-g.
Commit not by your negligence that, that which is ordained to salvation, turn to your destruction.
12-*.
Rom. 16.16, 1 Cor. 16.20, 1 Pet. 5.14.
12-h.
Which was according to those countries in those days both of the Jews and of other nations.