2 Corinthians 13:5

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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

In the faith

Jesus christ

Reprobates

Hebrews 6:8

General references

Proverbs 16:25

Bible References

Examine

You have tried my heart;
You have visited me by night;
You have tested me and You find nothing;
I have purposed that my mouth will not transgress.

Examine me, O Lord, and try me;

Test my mind and my heart.

I considered my ways
And turned my feet to Your testimonies.

Search me, O God, and know my heart;

Try me and know my anxious thoughts;

Let us examine and probe our ways,
And let us return to the Lord.

Because he considered and turned away from all his transgressions which he had committed, he shall surely live; he shall not die.

Now therefore, thus says the Lord of hosts, “Consider your ways!

But a man must examine himself, and in so doing he is to eat of the bread and drink of the cup.

But each one must examine his own work, and then he will have reason for boasting in regard to himself alone, and not in regard to another.

Therefore, let us fear if, while a promise remains of entering His rest, any one of you may seem to have come short of it.

See to it that no one comes short of the grace of God; that no root of bitterness springing up causes trouble, and by it many be defiled;

in whatever our heart condemns us; for God is greater than our heart and knows all things.

Therefore remember from where you have fallen, and repent and do the deeds you did at first; or else I am coming to you and will remove your lampstand out of its place—unless you repent.

Wake up, and strengthen the things that remain, which were about to die; for I have not found your deeds completed in the sight of My God.

In the faith

if indeed you continue in the faith firmly established and steadfast, and not moved away from the hope of the gospel that you have heard, which was proclaimed in all creation under heaven, and of which I, Paul, was made a

minister.

having been firmly rooted and now being built up in Him and established in your faith, just as you were instructed, and overflowing with gratitude.

But women will be preserved through the bearing of children if they continue in faith and love and sanctity with self-restraint.

This testimony is true. For this reason reprove them severely so that they may be sound in the faith,

Older men are to be temperate, dignified, sensible, sound in faith, in love, in perseverance.

But resist him, firm in your faith, knowing that the same experiences of suffering are being accomplished by your brethren who are in the world.

Jesus christ

Or what agreement has the temple of God with idols? For we are the temple of the living God; just as God said,
“I will

dwell in them and

walk among them;

And I will be their God, and they shall be My people.

He who eats My flesh and drinks My blood abides in Me, and I in him.

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

Abide in Me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself unless it abides in the vine, so neither can you unless you abide in Me.

I in them and You in Me, that they may be perfected in unity, so that the world may know that You sent Me, and loved them, even as You have loved Me.

If Christ is in you, though the body is dead because of sin, yet the spirit is alive because of righteousness.

I have been crucified with Christ; and it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the 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.

My children, with whom I am again in labor until Christ is formed in you—

having been built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus Himself being the corner stone,

so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith; and that you, being rooted and grounded in love,

to whom God willed to make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory.

and not holding fast to the head, from whom the entire body, being supplied and held together by the joints and ligaments, grows with a growth which is from God.

And coming to Him as to a living stone which has been rejected by men, but is choice and precious in the sight of God,

Reprobates

But I trust that you will realize that we ourselves do not fail the test.

They call them rejected silver,

Because the Lord has rejected them.

And just as they did not see fit to acknowledge God any longer, God gave them over to a depraved mind, to do those things which are not proper,

Just as Jannes and Jambres opposed Moses, so these men also oppose the truth, men of depraved mind, rejected in regard to the faith.

They profess to know God, but by their deeds they deny Him, being detestable and disobedient and worthless for any good deed.

but I discipline my body and make it my slave, so that, after I have preached to others, I myself will not be disqualified.

but if it yields thorns and thistles, it is worthless and close to being cursed, and it ends up being burned.

General references

There is a way which seems right to a man,

But its end is the way of death.