2 Corinthians 13:5

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2 Corinthians 13:5

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Summary

Examine yourselves, whether ye be in the faith; prove your own selves. Know ye not your own selves, how that Jesus Christ is in you, except ye be reprobates?

Examine

In the faith

Jesus christ

Reprobates

Hebrews 6:8

General references

Proverbs 16:25

Bible References

Examine

You have tested my heart;
You have examined me at night.
You have tried me and found nothing evil;
I have determined that my mouth will not sin.

Test me, Lord, and try me;
examine my heart and mind.

I thought about my ways
and turned my steps back to Your decrees.

Search me, God, and know my heart;
test me and know my concerns.

נ NunLet us search out and examine our ways,
and turn back to the Lord.

He will certainly live because he thought it over and turned from all the transgressions he had committed; he will not die.

Now, the Lord of Hosts says this: “Think carefully about your ways:

So a man should examine himself; in this way he should eat the bread and drink from the cup.

But each person should examine his own work, and then he will have a reason for boasting in himself alone, and not in respect to someone else.

Therefore, while the promise to enter His rest remains, let us fear that none of you should miss it.

Make sure that no one falls short of the grace of God and that no root of bitterness springs up, causing trouble and by it, defiling many.

even if our conscience condemns us, that God is greater than our conscience, and He knows all things.

Remember then how far you have fallen; repent, and do the works you did at first. Otherwise, I will come to you and remove your lampstand from its place—unless you repent.

Be alert and strengthen what remains, which is about to die, for I have not found your works complete before My God.

In the faith

if indeed you remain grounded and steadfast in the faith and are not shifted away from the hope of the gospel that you heard. This gospel has been proclaimed in all creation under heaven, and I, Paul, have become a servant of it.

rooted and built up in Him and established in the faith, just as you were taught, overflowing with gratitude.

But she will be saved through childbearing, if she continues in faith, love, and holiness, with good judgment.

This testimony is true. So, rebuke them sharply, that they may be sound in the faith

Older men are to be level headed, worthy of respect, sensible, and sound in faith, love, and endurance.

Resist him and be firm in the faith, knowing that the same sufferings are being experienced by your fellow believers throughout the world.

Jesus christ

And what agreement does God’s sanctuary have with idols? For we are the sanctuary of the living God, as God said:

I will dwell among them

and walk among them,
and I will be their God,

and they will be My people.

The one who eats My flesh and drinks My blood lives in Me, and I in him.

Jesus answered, “If anyone loves Me, he will keep My word. My Father will love him, and We will come to him and make Our home with him.

Remain in Me, and I in you. Just as a branch is unable to produce fruit by itself unless it remains on the vine, so neither can you unless you remain in Me.

I am in them and You are in Me.

May they be made completely one,
so the world may know You have sent Me
and have loved them as You have loved Me.

Now if Christ is in you, the body is dead because of sin, but the Spirit is life because of righteousness.

and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I now live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself for me.

My children, I am again suffering labor pains for you until Christ is formed in you.

built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, with Christ Jesus Himself as the cornerstone.

and that the Messiah may dwell in your hearts through faith. I pray that you, being rooted and firmly established in love,

God wanted to make known among the Gentiles the glorious wealth of this mystery, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory.

He doesn’t hold on to the head, from whom the whole body, nourished and held together by its ligaments and tendons, develops with growth from God.

Coming to Him, a living stone—rejected by men but chosen and valuable to God—

Reprobates

And I hope you will recognize that we do not fail the test.

They are called rejected silver,
for the Lord has rejected them.

And because they did not think it worthwhile to acknowledge God, God delivered them over to a worthless mind to do what is morally wrong.

Just as Jannes and Jambres resisted Moses, so these also resist the truth, men who are corrupt in mind, worthless in regard to the faith.

They profess to know God, but they deny Him by their works. They are detestable, disobedient, and disqualified for any good work.

Instead, I discipline my body and bring it under strict control, so that after preaching to others, I myself will not be disqualified.

But if it produces thorns and thistles, it is worthless and about to be cursed, and will be burned at the end.

General references

There is a way that seems right to a man,
but its end is the way to death.