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 scrutinized my inner motives; you have examined me during the night. You have carefully evaluated me, but you find no sin. I am determined I will say nothing sinful.

Examine me, O Lord, and test me! Evaluate my inner thoughts and motives!

I consider my actions and follow your rules.

Examine me, and probe my thoughts! Test me, and know my concerns!

(Nun) Let us carefully examine our ways, and let us return to the Lord.

Because he considered and turned from all the sins he had done, he will surely live; he will not die.

Here then is what the Lord who rules over all says: 'Think carefully about what you are doing.

A person should examine himself first, and in this way let him eat the bread and drink of the cup.

Let each one examine his own work. Then he can take pride in himself and not compare himself with someone else.

Therefore we must be wary that, while the promise of entering his rest remains open, none 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 one be like a bitter root springing up and causing trouble, and through him many become defiled.

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

Therefore, remember from what high state you have fallen and repent! Do the deeds you did at the first; if not, I will come to you and remove your lampstand from its place -- that is, if you do not repent.

Wake up then, and strengthen what remains that was about to die, because I have not found your deeds complete in the sight of my God.

In the faith

if indeed you remain in the faith, established and firm, without shifting from the hope of the gospel that you heard. This gospel has also been preached in all creation under heaven, and I, Paul, have become its servant.

rooted and built up in him and firm in your faith just as you were taught, and overflowing with thankfulness.

But she will be delivered through childbearing, if she continues in faith and love and holiness with self-control.

Such testimony is true. For this reason rebuke them sharply that they may be healthy in the faith

Older men are to be temperate, dignified, self-controlled, sound in faith, in love, and in endurance.

Resist him, strong in your faith, because you know that your brothers and sisters throughout the world are enduring the same kinds of suffering.

Jesus christ

And what mutual agreement does the temple of God have with idols? For we are the temple of the living God, just as God said, "I will live in them and will 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 resides in me, and I in him.

Jesus replied, "If anyone loves me, he will obey my word, and my Father will love him, and we will come to him and take up residence with him.

Remain in me, and I will remain in you. Just as the branch cannot bear fruit by itself, unless it remains in the vine, so neither can you unless you remain in me.

I in them and you in me -- that they may be completely one, so that the world will know that you sent me, and you have loved them just as you have loved me.

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

I have been crucified with Christ, and it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me. So the life I now live in the body, I live because of the faithfulness of the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.

My children -- I am again undergoing birth pains until Christ is formed in you!

because you have been built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, with Christ Jesus himself as the cornerstone.

that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith, so that, because you have been rooted and grounded in love,

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

He has not held fast to the head from whom the whole body, supported and knit together through its ligaments and sinews, grows with a growth that is from God.

So as you come to him, a living stone rejected by men but chosen and priceless in God's sight,

Reprobates

And I hope that you will realize that we have not failed the test!

They are regarded as 'rejected silver' because the Lord rejects them."

And just as they did not see fit to acknowledge God, God gave them over to a depraved mind, to do what should not be done.

And just as Jannes and Jambres opposed Moses, so these people -- who have warped minds and are disqualified in the faith -- also oppose the truth.

They profess to know God but with their deeds they deny him, since they are detestable, disobedient, and unfit for any good deed.

Instead I subdue my body and make it my slave, so that after preaching to others I myself will not be disqualified.

But if it produces thorns and thistles, it is useless and about to be cursed; its fate is to be burned.

General references

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