1 This third [time] I am coming to you⁺. “On [the] mouth of two or three witnesses every word will be established.” VP
2 I have said before, and I say [it] before as being present the second time and being absent now, to those having sinned before and to all the rest, that if I come to the [same] again, I will not spare [anyone], VP
3 since you⁺ seek proof of Christ speaking in me, who is not weak toward you⁺ but is powerful among you⁺. VP
4 For also He was crucified out of weakness, yet He lives out of God's power. For we also are weak in Him, but we will live with Him out of God’s power toward you⁺. VP
5 Test yourselves, whether you⁺ are in the faith; examine yourselves. Or do you⁺ not recognize yourselves that Jesus Christ [is] in you⁺?—unless you⁺ are unapproved. VP
6 And I trust that you⁺ will learn that we are not unapproved. VP
7 Now we pray to God [for] you⁺ to do nothing wrong, not that we might appear approved, but that you⁺ may do what [is] right, though we might appear as unapproved. VP
8 For we have no power against the truth, but for the truth. VP
9 For we rejoice when we may be weak but you⁺ may be powerful. This also we pray for: your⁺ perfection. VP
10 Because of this, I write these things being absent, so that being present I should not treat [you] severely according to the authority that the Lord gave me for building up and not for tearing down. VP
11 Finally, brothers, rejoice! Be perfected, be exhorted, [be of] the same mind, be at peace. And the God of love and peace will be with you⁺. VP
12 Greet one another with a holy kiss. VP
13 All the saints greet you⁺. VP
14 The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit [be] with all of you⁺. VP