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¹ I come to you this third time; on the mouth of two or three witnesses will every saying be established;² I have said before, and I say [it] before, as being present, the second time, and being absent, now, I write to those having sinned before, and to all the rest, that if I come again, I will not spare,³ since you seek a proof of the Christ speaking in me, who is not weak to you, but is powerful in you,⁴ for even if He was crucified from weakness, yet He lives from the power of God; for we also are weak in Him, but we will live with Him from the power of God toward you.⁵ Try yourselves, if you are in the faith; prove yourselves; do you not know yourselves, that Jesus Christ is in you, if you are not disapproved of in some respect?⁶ And I hope that you will know that we are not disapproved of;

⁷ and I pray before God that you do no evil, not that we may appear approved, but that you may do that which is right, and we may be as disapproved;⁸ for we are not able to do anything against the truth, but for the truth;⁹ for we rejoice when we may be weak, but you may be powerful; and we also pray for this—your perfection!¹⁰ Because of this, these things—being absent—I write, that being present, I may not treat [any] sharply, according to the authority that the LORD gave me for building up, and not for casting down.

¹¹ From now on, brothers, rejoice; be made perfect, be comforted, be of the same mind, be at peace, and the God of love and peace will be with you.¹² Greet one another in a holy kiss.¹³ All the holy ones greet you.¹⁴ The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit, [is] with you all! Amen.