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This is the third time I am coming to you. In the mouth of two or three witnesses shall every word be established. Explain This Verse
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I told you before, and foretell you, as if I were present, the second time; and being absent now I write to them which heretofore have sinned, and to all other, that, if I come again, I will not spare: Explain This Verse
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Since ye seek a proof of Christ speaking in me, which to you-ward is not weak, but is mighty in you. Explain This Verse
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For though he was crucified through weakness, yet he liveth by the power of God. For we also are weak in him, but we shall live with him by the power of God toward you. Explain This Verse
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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? Explain This Verse
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But I trust that ye shall know that we are not reprobates. Explain This Verse
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Now I pray to God that ye do no evil; not that we should appear approved, but that ye should do that which is honest, though we be as reprobates. Explain This Verse
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For we can do nothing against the truth, but for the truth. Explain This Verse
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For we are glad, when we are weak, and ye are strong: and this also we wish, even your perfection. Explain This Verse
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Therefore I write these things being absent, lest being present I should use sharpness, according to the power which the Lord hath given me to edification, and not to destruction. Explain This Verse
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Finally, brethren, farewell. Be perfect, be of good comfort, be of one mind, live in peace; and the God of love and peace shall be with you. Explain This Verse
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The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the communion of the Holy Ghost, be with you all. Amen. The second epistle to the Corinthians was written from Philippi, a city of Macedonia, by Titus and Lucas. Explain This Verse