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 probed my heart. You have confronted me at night. You have tested me like silver, but you found nothing wrong. I have decided that my mouth will not sin.

Examine me, O Jehovah, and test me. Look closely (deeply) into my heart and mind.

I considered my ways and turned my feet to your laws.

Examine me, O God, and know my heart. Test me and know my anxious (troubled) (painful) (disturbing) thoughts.

Let us search and put our ways to the test. Let us turn again to Jehovah.

He realized what he was doing and turned away from all the rebellious things that he had done. He will certainly live. He will not die.

Jehovah of Hosts said: Consider your ways.

Let a man examine himself before he eats of that bread, and drinks of that cup.

Each of you must examine your own actions. Then you can be proud of your own accomplishments without comparing yourself to others.

While the promise of entering his rest remains, let us fear that one of you might come up short and not enter.

See that no one misses the grace of God; that no bitter root spring up to cause trouble and defile many.

If our heart condemns us, God is greater than our heart, and knows all things.

Think how far you have fallen! Turn from your sins (repent) and do what you did at first. If you do not turn from your sins, I will come to you and remove your lamp stand from its place.

Be watchful, and strengthen the things that remain that are at the point of death: for I have not found your works perfect (completed) before God.

In the faith

Provided that you continue in the faith, grounded (on the foundation) and steadfast, and not moved away from the hope of the good news you heard, which was preached in all creation under heaven. For this I, Paul, was made a minister.

Keep your roots deep in him! Build your lives on him. Become stronger in your faith, as you were taught, and be filled with thanksgiving.

She will be saved through her childbearing, if they continue in faith, love, and sanctification with sobriety.

This testimony is true. For this cause reprove them sharply, that they may be sound in the faith,

Aged men should be temperate, serious, sound in mind, sound in faith, in love, and in endurance.

Stand firm in your faith, knowing that the same sufferings are accomplished in your brothers in the world.

Jesus christ

And what agreement does a temple of God have with idols? We are the temple of the living God. God said: I will dwell in them, and walk among them; and I will be their God, and they will be my people. (Leviticus 26:12) (Zechariah 8:8)

He who eats my flesh and drinks my blood abides with me, and I with him.

Jesus answered: If a man loves me, he will obey my word. My Father will love him, and we will come to him and dwell with him.

Remain with me, and I with you. The branch cannot bear fruit by itself. It must remain on the vine. Neither can you bear fruit unless you remain with me.

I with them, and you with me, that they may accomplish complete unity. That way the world may know that you sent me and that you love them just as you love me.

If Christ is with you, the body is dead on account of sin, but the Spirit is life on account of righteousness.

I have been impaled with Christ. It is no longer I that live, but Christ lives in me. The life that I now live in the flesh (physical body) I live by faith. This is the faith that is in the Son of God. He loved me and gave himself up for me.

My little children, of whom I am again in labor pains until Christ is formed in you

You are built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets. Christ Jesus is the chief corner stone.

May Christ dwell in your hearts through faith to the end that you will be rooted and grounded in love.

It was God's will to make known his secret to the people of the nations, this rich and glorious secret that he has for people. The secret is that Christ is in union with you, which means that you will share in his glory.

not holding fast to the head, from whom all the body, being supplied and knit together through the joints and bands, grows with the growth from God.

You came to him, a living stone, rejected indeed by men, but chosen and precious with God.

Reprobates

I trust that you will know that we are not disqualified.

They call them rejected silver, for Jehovah has rejected them.

They did not like to retain God in their knowledge, so God gave them over to a reprobate (depraved) mind, to do things that are not fitting.

And even as Jannes and Jambres withstood Moses, so do these also withstand the truth. Men corrupted in mind, rejected concerning the faith,

They profess that they know God; but deny him by their works! They are detestable, disobedient, and not approved for any good work.

But I discipline my body, and bring it into subjection, so that after I have preached to others I will not be disqualified.

That which bears thorns and briars is rejected, and is near to being cursed. It ends up being burned.

General references

There is a way that seems right to a man, but the end is the way of death!