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| 13:1 |
This third time I am coming to you. In the mouth of two or three witnesses shall every matter be established.
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| 13:2 |
I have declared beforehand, and I say beforehand as present the second time, and now absent, to those that have sinned before, and to all the rest, that if I come again I will not spare.
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| 13:3 |
Since ye seek a proof of Christ speaking in me, (who is not weak towards you, but is powerful among you,
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| 13:4 |
for if indeed he has been crucified in weakness, yet he lives by God's power; for indeed *we* are weak in him, but we shall live with him by God's power towards you,)
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| 13:5 |
examine your own selves if ye be in the faith; prove your own selves: do ye not recognise yourselves, that Jesus Christ is in you, unless indeed ye be reprobates?
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| 13:6 |
Now I hope that ye will know that *we* are not reprobates.
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| 13:7 |
But we pray to God that ye may do nothing evil; not that *we* may appear approved, but that *ye* may do what is right, and *we* be as reprobates.
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| 13:8 |
For we can do nothing against the truth, but for the truth.
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| 13:9 |
For we rejoice when *we* may be weak and *ye* may be powerful. But this also we pray for, your perfecting.
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| 13:10 |
On this account I write these things being absent, that being present I may not use severity according to the authority which the Lord has given me for building up, and not for overthrowing.
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| 13:11 |
For the rest, brethren, rejoice; be perfected; be encouraged; be of one mind; be at peace; and the God of love and peace shall be with you.
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| 13:12 |
Salute one another with a holy kiss.
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| 13:13 |
All the saints salute you.
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| 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.
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