For that is why I wrote you??o find out how you would stand the test, and see if you would obey me absolutely.

I do not mean this as a command. I only want to test the genuineness of your love by the devotion of others.

The way you stand the test of this service must do honor to God, through your fidelity to what you profess as to the good news of Christ, and through the liberality of your contributions for them and for all others;

It is yourselves you must test, to see whether you are holding to the faith. It is yourselves you must examine. Do you not know that Jesus Christ is within you? Unless you fail to stand the test!

But I pray to God that you may not do wrong??ot to prove me equal to the test, but that you should do right even if I fail to stand it.