1 This is the third time I am coming to you. In the mouth of two or three witnesses shall every word be established. Compare verse7 commentaries
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: Compare verse4 commentaries
3 Since you seek a proof of Christ speaking in me, which to you-ward is not weak, but is mighty in you. Compare verse3 commentaries
4 For though he was crucified through 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. Compare verse7 commentaries
5 Examine yourselves, whether you be in the faith; prove your own selves. Know you not your own selves, how that Jesus Christ is in you, except you be reprobates? Compare verse4 commentaries
7 Now I pray to God that you do no evil; not that we should appear approved, but that you should do that which is honest, though we be as reprobates. Compare verse2 commentaries
9 For we are glad, when we are weak, and you are strong: and this also we wish, even your perfection. Compare verse2 commentaries
10 Therefore I write these things being absent, lest being present I should use sharpness, according to the power which the Lord has given me to edification, and not to destruction. Compare verse4 commentaries
11 Finally, brothers, 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. Compare verse4 commentaries