2 Corinthians 13:5

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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

Revelation 3:2

In the faith

Jesus christ

Reprobates

Bible References

Examine

Let a man then sift and approve himself, and accordingly let him eat of that bread, and drink of that cup.

but let every one bring his own work to the test, and then he will have matter of glorying in himself alone, and not in another.

Let us therefore fear, lest any of us by rejecting the promise of entring into his rest, should be excluded from it.

take care not to deprive yourselves of the divine favour: and that no poisonous root spring up, and spread a general infection among you.

for if our conscience condemn us, God knows us better than we do our selves, he knoweth all things.

remember therefore from whence thou art fallen, and repent, and do the first works; or else I will come unto thee quickly, and will remove thy candlestick out of his place except thou repent.

be watchful, and fortify the rest that are ready to die: for I have not found thy works perfect before God.

In the faith

provided you continue well-grounded and settled in the faith, and do not abandon that hope which has been offer'd to you by the gospel, and is proclaim'd to all mankind; of which I Paul am made a minister.

being firmly attach'd to, and founded upon him: establishing yourselves in the faith you have been taught, and being thankful for the improvement you make therein.

however the women may be saved by educating their children, and persevering themselves in faith, in charity, in holiness and chastity. this may be depended upon as true.

the charge is true: wherefore rebuke them sharply, that they maybe sound in the faith;

but what is agreeable to sound doctrine: advise the aged to be prudent, grave, temperate, sound in faith,

resist him by the steadiness of your faith, considering that your brethren among the Gentiles, suffer the same persecutions as you do.

Jesus christ

and what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? for ye are the temple of the living God; as God has said, "I will dwell with, and walk among them; I will be their God, and they shall be my people.

he that eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, dwelleth in me, and I in him.

Jesus answered him, he that loves me, will observe my precepts: and my father will love him, and we will come unto him, and make our abode with him.

be attach'd to me, and I shall be so to you. as the branch cannot bear fruit of it self, except it be attach'd to the vine: so neither can you, except you continue attach'd to me.

I in them, and thou in me, that they may have a perfect union, and that the world may know that thou hast sent me, and hast loved them, as thou hast loved me.

and if Christ be in you, tho' the body is mortal in consequence of sin; the spirit gives life by justification.

I am crucified with Christ, it is not I that now live, but Christ that liveth in me; the life I have in this body I live by faith in the son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.

my dear children, how am I in pain, till Christ be formed in you?

being built upon the foundation laid by the apostles and prophets, whereof Jesus Christ himself is the main stone of the angle:

so that your souls may be possess'd with faith in Christ.

to whom God does disclose the glorious advantages of this mystery to you Gentiles, to wit, "that by Christ you may have the expectation of glory."

not adhering to the head, from which all the parts of the body derive its nutrition, and being firmly united together by its joints and ligaments, receives a divine increase.

which however rejected it is by men, is the precious stone, which God has chosen: and

Reprobates

I trust you shall know that we are not so destitute,

As they did not seek the favour of God, by worshipping him, God gave them over to a depraved sense, to act unworthy of human nature;

Moses did not meet with greater opposition from Jannes and Jambres, than truth does from men so corrupted in their mind, and so adulterated in their faith.

they make a profession of knowing God; but in fact they deny him, being execrably incredulous, and utter strangers to all virtue.

but I mortify my body, and bring it into subjection: lest after having been a herald to others, I my self should be thrown out.

but that which bears thorns and briars, is look'd upon as lying under a curse; whose end will be to be burnt.