1 This is the third time I am coming to you. In the mouth of two or three witnesses 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. 4 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. 5 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? 6 But I trust that ye shall know that we are not reprobates. 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 honest, 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 weak, and ye are strong: and this also we wish, even your perfection. 10 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.
11 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. 12 Greet one another with an holy kiss.
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 Ghost, be with you all. Amen.
1 ecce tertio hoc venio ad vos
in ore duorum vel trium testium stabit omne verbum
2 praedixi et praedico ut praesens bis et nunc absens
his qui ante peccaverunt et ceteris omnibus
quoniam si venero iterum non parcam
3 an experimentum quaeritis eius qui in me loquitur Christi
qui in vos non infirmatur sed potens est in vobis
4 nam et si crucifixus est ex infirmitate
sed vivit ex virtute Dei
nam et nos infirmi sumus in illo
sed vivemus cum eo ex virtute Dei in vobis
5 vosmet ipsos temptate si estis in fide ipsi vos probate
an non cognoscitis vos ipsos
quia Christus Iesus in vobis est
nisi forte reprobi estis
6 spero autem quod cognoscetis quia nos non sumus reprobi
7 oramus autem Deum ut nihil mali faciatis
non ut nos probati pareamus
sed ut vos quod bonum est faciatis
nos autem ut reprobi simus
8 non enim possumus aliquid adversus veritatem
sed pro veritate
9 gaudemus enim quando nos infirmi sumus
vos autem potentes estis
hoc et oramus vestram consummationem
10 ideo haec absens scribo ut non praesens durius agam
secundum potestatem quam Dominus dedit mihi
in aedificationem et non in destructionem
11 de cetero fratres gaudete
perfecti estote exhortamini idem sapite pacem habete
et Deus dilectionis et pacis erit vobiscum
12 salutate invicem in osculo sancto
salutant vos sancti omnes
13 gratia Domini nostri Iesu Christi et caritas Dei
et communicatio Sancti Spiritus cum omnibus
vobis amen
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