5 Test your own selves, whether you are in the faith. Test your own selves. Or don't you know as to your own selves, that Jesus Christ is in you?--unless indeed you are disqualified.
But let a man examine himself, and so let him eat of the bread, and drink of the cup.
Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to Yahweh.
looking carefully lest there be any man who falls short of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and thereby the many be defiled;
But let each man test his own work, and then he will take pride in himself and not in his neighbor.
Let us fear therefore, lest perhaps a promise being left of entering into his rest, anyone of you should seem to have come short of it.
They profess that they know God, but by their works they deny him, being abominable, disobedient, and unfit for any good work.
I have been crucified with Christ, and it is no longer I that live, but Christ living in me. That life which I now live in the flesh, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself up for me.
If Christ is in you, the body is dead because of sin, but the spirit is alive because of righteousness.
Examine me, Yahweh, and prove me. Try my heart and my mind.
Search me, God, and know my heart. Try me, and know my thoughts. See if there is any wicked way in me, And lead me in the everlasting way.
I made known to them your name, and will make it known; that the love with which you loved me may be in them, and I in them."
But I hope that you will know that we aren't disqualified. Now I pray to God that you do no evil; not that we may appear approved, but that you may do that which is honorable, though we are as reprobate.
being built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus himself being the chief cornerstone; in whom the whole building, fitted together, grows into a holy temple in the Lord; in whom you also are built together for a habitation of God in the Spirit.
Withstand him steadfast in your faith, knowing that your brothers who are in the world are undergoing the same sufferings.
coming to him, a living stone, rejected indeed by men, but chosen by God, precious. You also, as living stones, are built up as a spiritual house, to be a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.
You adulterers and adulteresses, don't you know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.
This testimony is true. For this cause, reprove them sharply, that they may be sound in the faith,
Remember therefore from where you have fallen, and repent and do the first works; or else I am coming to you swiftly, and will move your lampstand out of its place, unless you repent.
Wake up, and keep the things that remain, which you were about to throw away, for I have found no works of yours perfected before my God. Remember therefore how you have received and heard. Keep it, and repent. If therefore you won't watch, I will come as a thief, and you won't know what hour I will come upon you.
Or don't you know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit which is in you, which you have from God? You are not your own,
Because he considers, and turns away from all his transgressions that he has committed, he shall surely live, he shall not die.
This he said to test him, for he himself knew what he would do.
Jesus answered him, "If a man loves me, he will keep my word. My Father will love him, and we will come to him, and make our home with him.
I in them, and you in me, that they may be perfected into one; that the world may know that you sent me, and loved them, even as you loved me.
Don't you know that you are a temple of God, and that God's Spirit lives in you?
Don't you know that the saints will judge the world? And if the world is judged by you, are you unworthy to judge the smallest matters?
Refuse silver shall men them, because Yahweh has rejected them.
Don't you know that those who run in a race all run, but one receives the prize? Run like that, that you may win.
What agreement has a temple of God with idols? For you are a temple of the living God. Even as God said, "I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they will be my people."
that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith; to the end that you, being rooted and grounded in love,
to whom God was pleased to make known what are the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory;
rooted and built up in him, and established in the faith, even as you were taught, abounding in it in thanksgiving.
but she will be saved through her child-bearing, if they continue in faith, love, and sanctification with sobriety.
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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,