This third [time] I am coming unto you. At [the] mouth of two witnesses and three shall every word be established.
I have foretold and foretell, as if present the second [time] and now absent, to them that have sinned before and to all the rest, that if I come again I will not spare.
Since ye seek a proof of the Christ speaking in me (who toward you is not weak, but is powerful in you,
for although he was crucified in weakness, yet he liveth by God’s power; for indeed we are weak in him, but shall live with him by God’s power toward you),
try your own selves whether ye be in the faith, prove your own selves. Or recognize ye not as to your own selves that Jesus Christ is in you, unless indeed ye be reprobate?
But I hope ye shall know that we are not reprobate.
But we pray unto God that ye may do nothing evil, not that we may appear approved, but that ye may do the right though we be as reprobate.
For we can do nothing against the truth but for the truth.
For we rejoice when we are weak and ye are strong: this also we pray for, your perfecting.
For this cause I write these things while absent, that I may not when present deal severely according to the authority which the Lord gave me for building up and not for casting down.
For the rest, brethren, rejoice, be perfected, be encouraged, be of one mind, live in peace; and the God of love and peace shall be with you.
Salute one another with a holy kiss.
All the saints salute you.
The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the communion of the Holy Spirit, [be] with you all.