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Scriptural Text [& Editorial]
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Commentary & Explanation
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Footnotes ~ References ~ JST
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CHAPTER 13
Saints should test themselves as to righteousness—Be perfect, of one
mind, and live in peace.
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1 THIS is the
third time I am coming to you. In the mouth of two or three
awitnesses shall every word be established.
2 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:
3 Since ye seek a proof of Christ speaking in me, which to you-ward is not weak, but is mighty in you.
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4 For though he was
acrucified 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.
5 aExamine yourselves,
whether ye be in the faith; prove your own selves. Know ye not your own
selves, how that bJesus cChrist is in
you, except ye be reprobates?
6 But I trust that ye shall know that we are not reprobates.
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7 Now I pray to God that ye do no evil; not
that we should appear approved, but that ye should do that which is
ahonest, though we be as reprobates.
8 For we can do nothing against the truth, but for the truth.
9 For we are glad, when we are
aweak, and ye are strong: and this also we wish,
even your perfection.
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10 Therefore I write these things being
absent, lest being present I should use sharpness, according to the
apower which the Lord hath given me to edification, and not
to destruction.
11 Finally, brethren, farewell. Be
aperfect, be of good comfort, be of bone
cmind, live in dpeace; and the God of
elove and peace shall be with you.
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12 Greet one another with an holy
akiss.
13 All the saints salute you.
14 The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the
love of God, and the communion of the Holy
Ghosta, be with you all.
Amen.
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14a the communion of the Holy
Ghost It is the Holy Ghost in us, his constant companionship,
which brings us to Christ and God. In and through his communion with us we
may be as of one mind in God, living in righteousness according to the Spirit
and the power thereof. Perhaps ironic is that the word communion here is
used in the Catholic church to refer to the sacrament of the Lord's Supper,
and it is in those prayers of commitment and covenant whereby we are
promised to have that Spirit always to be with us as we take his name upon us,
always remember him and keep his commandements which he has given us.
Certainly the Holy Ghost has the power unto the sanctification of the soul
and person of man, that we might come unto God and be one with God and
Christ even as they are one, in mind, faith and purpose (Moses 1:39).
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¶ The second epistle to the Corinthians was written from Philippi,
a city of Macedonia, by Titus and Lucas.
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