1 T his third time I am coming to you. In the mouth of two or three witnesses shall every matter be established.

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.

3 S ince ye seek a proof of Christ speaking in me, (who is not weak towards you, but is powerful among you,

4 f or 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,)

5 e xamine 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?

6 N ow I hope that ye will know that we are not reprobates.

7 B ut 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.

8 F or we can do nothing against the truth, but for the truth.

9 F or we rejoice when we may be weak and ye may be powerful. But this also we pray for, your perfecting.

10 O n 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.

11 F or 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.

12 S alute one another with a holy kiss.

13 A ll the saints salute you.

14 T he grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the communion of the Holy Spirit, with you all.