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2 Corinthians 13 :: New King James Version (NKJV)

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Coming with Authority
Paul’s Warning; Greetings and Benediction
Unchecked Copy Box2Co 13:1 - This will be the third time I am coming to you. “By the mouth of two or three witnesses every word shall be established.”[fn]
Unchecked Copy Box2Co 13:2 - I have told you before, and foretell as if I were present the second time, and now being absent I write[fn] to those who have sinned before, and to all the rest, that if I come again I will not spare—
Unchecked Copy Box2Co 13:3 - since you seek a proof of Christ speaking in me, who is not weak toward you, but mighty in you.
Unchecked Copy Box2Co 13:4 - 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.
Unchecked Copy Box2Co 13:5 - 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 are disqualified.
Unchecked Copy Box2Co 13:6 - But I trust that you will know that we are not disqualified.
Paul Prefers Gentleness
Unchecked Copy Box2Co 13:7 - Now I[fn] 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.
Unchecked Copy Box2Co 13:8 - For we can do nothing against the truth, but for the truth.
Unchecked Copy Box2Co 13:9 - For we are glad when we are weak and you are strong. And this also we pray, that you may be made complete.
Unchecked Copy Box2Co 13:10 - 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.
Greetings and Benediction
Unchecked Copy Box2Co 13:11 - 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.
Unchecked Copy Box2Co 13:12 - Greet one another with a holy kiss.
Unchecked Copy Box2Co 13:13 - All the saints greet you.
Unchecked Copy Box2Co 13:14 - The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the communion of the Holy Spirit be with you all. Amen.
NKJV Footnotes
Deuteronomy 19:15
NU-Text omits I write.
NU-Text reads we.
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New King James Version, © 1982 by Thomas Nelson, Inc. All rights reserved. Used by permission.

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