5 Your ownselves try ye, if ye are in the faith; your ownselves prove ye; do ye not know your ownselves, that Jesus Christ is in you, if ye be not in some respect disapproved of?
and let a man be proving himself, and so of the bread let him eat, and of the cup let him drink;
We search our ways, and investigate, And turn back unto Jehovah.
looking diligently over lest any one be failing of the grace of God, lest any root of bitterness springing up may give trouble, and through this many may be defiled;
and his own work let each one prove, and then in regard to himself alone the glorying he shall have, and not in regard to the other,
We may fear, then, lest a promise being left of entering into His rest, any one of you may seem to have come short,
God they profess to know, and in the works they deny `Him', being abominable, and disobedient, and unto every good work disapproved.
with Christ I have been crucified, and live no more do I, and Christ doth live in me; and that which I now live in the flesh -- in the faith I live of the Son of God, who did love me and did give himself for me;
and if Christ `is' in you, the body, indeed, `is' dead because of sin, and the Spirit `is' life because of righteousness,
Try me, O Jehovah, and prove me, Purified `are' my reins and my heart.
Search me, O God, and know my heart, Try me, and know my thoughts, And see if a grievous way be in me, And lead me in a way age-during!
and I made known to them Thy name, and will make known, that the love with which Thou lovedst me in them may be, and I in them.'
and I hope that ye shall know that we -- we are not disapproved of; and I pray before God that ye do no evil, not that we may appear approved, but that ye may do that which is right, and we may be as disapproved;
being built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being chief corner-`stone', in whom all the building fitly framed together doth increase to an holy sanctuary in the Lord, in whom also ye are builded together, for a habitation of God in the Spirit.
whom resist, stedfast in the faith, having known the same sufferings to your brotherhood in the world to be accomplished.
to whom coming -- a living stone -- by men, indeed, having been disapproved of, but with God choice, precious, and ye yourselves, as living stones, are built up, a spiritual house, a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.
Adulterers and adulteresses! have ye not known that friendship of the world is enmity with God? whoever, then, may counsel to be a friend of the world, an enemy of God he is set.
this testimony is true; for which cause convict them sharply, that they may be sound in the faith,
remember, then, whence thou hast fallen, and reform, and the first works do; and if not, I come to thee quickly, and will remove thy lamp-stand from its place -- if thou mayest not reform;
become watching, and strengthen the rest of the things that are about to die, for I have not found thy works fulfilled before God. `Remember, then, how thou hast received, and heard, and be keeping, and reform: if, then, thou mayest not watch, I will come upon thee as a thief, and thou mayest not know what hour I will come upon thee.
Have ye not known that your body is a sanctuary of the Holy Spirit in you, which ye have from God? and ye are not your own,
And he seeth and turneth back, From all his transgressions that he hath done, He doth surely live, he doth not die,
Thus said Jehovah of Hosts: Set your heart to your ways.
and this he said, trying him, for he himself had known what he was about to do.
Jesus answered and said to him, `If any one may love me, my word he will keep, and my Father will love him, and unto him we will come, and abode with him we will make;
I in them, and Thou in me, that they may be perfected into one, and that the world may know that Thou didst send me, and didst love them as Thou didst love me.
have ye not known that ye are a sanctuary of God, and the Spirit of God doth dwell in you?
have ye not known that the saints shall judge the world? and if by you the world is judged, are ye unworthy of the smaller judgments?
`Silver rejected,' they have called to them, For Jehovah hath kicked against them!
have ye not known that those running in a race -- all indeed run, but one doth receive the prize? so run ye, that ye may obtain;
and what agreement to the sanctuary of God with idols? for ye are a sanctuary of the living God, according as God said -- `I will dwell in them, and will walk among `them', and I will be their God, and they shall be My people,
that the Christ may dwell through the faith in your hearts, in love having been rooted and founded,
to whom God did will to make known what `is' the riches of the glory of this secret among the nations -- which is Christ in you, the hope of the glory,
being rooted and built up in him, and confirmed in the faith, as ye were taught -- abounding in it in thanksgiving.
and she shall be saved through the child-bearing, if they remain in faith, and 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,