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?
But let a man prove himself, and thus eat of the bread, and drink of the cup.
Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to Jehovah.
watching lest [there be] any one who lacks the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble [you], and many be defiled by it;
but let each prove his own work, and then he will have his boast in what belongs to himself alone, and not in what belongs to another.
Let us therefore fear, lest, a promise being left of entering into his rest, any one of you might seem to have failed [of it].
They profess to know God, but in works deny [him], being abominable, and disobedient, and found worthless as to every good work.
I am crucified with Christ, and no longer live, *I*, but Christ lives in me; but [in] that I now live in flesh, I live by faith, the [faith] of the Son of God, who has loved me and given himself for me.
but if Christ be in you, the body is dead on account of sin, but the Spirit life on account of righteousness.
Prove me, Jehovah, and test me; try my reins and my heart:
Search me, O ùGod, and know my heart; prove me, and know my thoughts; And see if there be any grievous way in me; and lead me in the way everlasting.
And I have made known to them thy name, and will make [it] known; that the love with which thou hast loved me may be in them and I in them.
Now I hope that ye will know that *we* are not reprobates. 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.
being built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the corner-stone, in whom all [the] building fitted together increases to a holy temple in the Lord; in whom *ye* also are built together for a habitation of God in [the] Spirit.
Whom resist, stedfast in faith, knowing that the selfsame sufferings are accomplished in your brotherhood which [is] in [the] world.
To whom coming, a living stone, cast away indeed as worthless by men, but with God chosen, precious, yourselves also, as living stones, are being built up a spiritual house, a holy priesthood, to offer spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God by Jesus Christ.
Adulteresses, know ye not that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Whoever therefore is minded to be [the] friend of the world is constituted enemy of God.
This testimony is true; for which cause rebuke them severely, that they may be sound in the faith,
Remember therefore whence thou art fallen, and repent, and do the first works: but if not, I am coming to thee, and I will remove thy lamp out of its place, except thou shalt repent.
Be watchful, and strengthen the things that remain, which are about to die, for I have not found thy works complete before my God. Remember therefore how thou hast received and heard, and keep [it] and repent. If therefore thou shalt not watch, I will come [upon thee] as a thief, and thou shalt not know at what hour I shall come upon thee.
Do ye not know that your body is [the] temple of the Holy Spirit which [is] in you, which ye have of God; and ye are not your own?
Because he considereth, and turneth from all his transgressions which he hath committed, he shall certainly live, he shall not die.
But this he said trying him, for he knew what he was going to do.
Jesus answered and said to him, If any one love me, he will keep my word, and my Father will love him, and we will come to him and make our abode with him.
I in them and thou in me, that they may be perfected into one [and] that the world may know that thou hast sent me, and [that] thou hast loved them as thou hast loved me.
Do ye not know that ye are [the] temple of God, and [that] the Spirit of God dwells in you?
Do ye not then know that the saints shall judge the world? and if the world is judged by you, are ye unworthy of [the] smallest judgments?
Reprobate silver shall they call them, for Jehovah hath rejected them.
Know ye not that they who run in [the] race-course run all, but one receives the prize? Thus run in order that ye may obtain.
and what agreement of God's temple with idols? for *ye* are [the] living God's temple; according as God has said, I will dwell among them, and walk among [them]; and I will be their God, and they shall be to me a people.
that the Christ may dwell, through faith, in your hearts, being rooted and founded in love,
to whom God would make known what are the riches of the glory of this mystery among the nations, which is Christ in you the hope of glory:
rooted and built up in him, and assured in the faith, even as ye have been taught, abounding in it with thanksgiving.
But she shall be preserved in childbearing, if they continue in faith and love and holiness with discretion.
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Commentary on 2 Corinthians 13 Matthew Henry Commentary
Chapter 13
In this chapter the apostle threatens to be severe against obstinate sinners, and assigns the reason thereof (v. 1-6); then he makes a suitable prayer to God on the behalf of the Corinthians, with the reasons inducing him thereto (v. 7-10), and concludes his epistle with a valediction and a benediction (v. 11-14).
2Cr 13:1-6
In these verses observe,
2Cr 13:7-10
Here we have,
2Cr 13:11-14
Thus the apostle concludes this epistle with,