2 Corinthians 13:1-10 - Final Warnings To The Church At Corinth

¹ This will be my third visit to you. Out of the mouth of two or three witnesses shall every word be confirmed. ² I have said formerly, and I now forewarn you as when I was present the second time, so now when I am absent the second time, so now when I am absent, saying to those who had sinned before, and to all the rest, "If I come again, I will not spare," ³ Since you want a proof of Christ who is speaking in me, he who is not feeble toward you, but powerful among you. ⁴ For though he was crucified through weakness, yet he now lives through the power of God. I also am weak, sharing in his weakness, but I shall live with him by the power of God.

⁵ Examine yourselves to see if you are in the faith; put your own selves to the proof. Or do you not know, your own selves, that Jesus Christ is in you, unless indeed you fail to abide the proof? ⁶ But I hope you will find that I abide the proof. ⁷ And my prayer to God is that you may do no evil; not in order that I may appear approved, but that you may do what is noble, though I should seem unable to abide the proof. ⁸ For I have no power against the truth, but only in defense of the truth. ⁹ For I am always glad whenever I am weak, but you are strong. For this also I am praying, for your perfect reformation. ¹⁰ For this reason I am writing thus while absent, so that when I come, I may not have to deal sharply, according to the authority which the Lord gave me for building up, and not for pulling down.